This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the clothing and retailing industries.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 4 years full time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subjects:
- Computer literacy
- Economics
- Academic literacy
- Financial accounting
- Clothing production: sewing technology
- Design principles
- Statistics
- Information literacy
- Aesthetics
- Informatics
- Clothing production: processes
Second year subjects:
- Marketing management
- Aesthetics
- Costume and fashion history
- Flat pattern design
- Business management
- Textiles: utility, fibres and yarn
- Consumer behaviour and service market
- Fashion forecasting
- Pattern use and good fit
- Experimental training
- Textiles: structures and finishes
Third year subjects:
- Marketing management
- Business law
- Tailoring
- Business management
- New development and textiles in use
- Social and cultural aspects of clothing
Fourth year subjects:
- Marketing management
- Clothing retail management
- Product development
- Clothing textile project
- Clothing merchandising
- Textiles
Careers: retail manager, shopping mall manager, store manager.
Source: www.up.ac.za