Institute of Social Sciences

Department of Textile and Fashion Design

General Description

Foundation

The Department began to offer education in the Academic Year 2008-2009.

Degrees Offered

Thesis Master’s Degree in Textile and Fashion Design

Cycle

Second Cycle / EQF 7 (Master’s Degree)

Admission and Registration Requirements

To apply for the Master’s Degree Programme, candidates must hold a bachelor’s degree. The copy of the ALES score is not required for the admission to the master’s degree programmes of conservatoires or the departments of Fine Arts.

Recognition of Prior Learning

In accordance with Article 10 of the Regulation on Beykent University’s Postgraduate Education and Training, students are admitted to the programmes at Institutes through horizontal transfer provided that they meet the requirements for horizontal transfer, which are determined by the Academic Board upon the Institute Administrative Board’s decision, and the Head of the Department’s opinion. Students submit a letter of application by means of which they request to be exempt from certain courses within the same postgraduate programme of Beykent University as the courses of the postgraduate programme of another university they had enrolled in before. Their application including the course contents and transcripts will be Head of the Department, and the Board will decide which courses the students took will be awarded credits for the courses they must take within the Programme they have recently enrolled. The courses students took at the university they attended may be recognised as the elective or compulsory courses with the Institute Administrative Board’s approval.

Competence Requirements and Rules

3 years, 2 terms in each year, 15 weeks in each term, 120 ECTS in total.

Programme Description

The Programme aims to cultivate students into designers who combine the knowledge, methods, and techniques they acquired in their field with personal processes of art and design, gain the competence and proficiency to present these to the society in unity, steer manufacturing, and play a leading role in manufacturing, and have the required artistic and technical skills and awareness.

Learning Outcomes

The aim of the Programme is to cultivate students into competent designers and educators who can observe their audience well, produce solutions to the demands of the society regarding Textile and Fashion Design, gain an original identity to Textile and Fashion Design, follow the innovative tendencies, and come up with solutions to the tendencies.

Career Opportunities

Carrier Opportunities for our Graduates can be summoned up as follows:

  • Working as a research assistant in higher education institutions providing similar programmes
  • In Fashion Houses
  • In Offices for Textile and Fashion Design
  • In the Import and Export Departments of Textile Firms
  • As Designers in Pattern Designing Departments
  • As a Freelance Textile Artist
  • As a Manager and Consultants in Textile Printing, Weaving, Clothing, and Knitting Factories
  • As a Quality Control Specialist
  • As a Sewing Pattern Maker in the Clothing Industry, and Production Monitoring Specialist

As a Specialist in Design and Supply Departments.