4 ECTS / Semester / 3 hours per weeks

Ergonomics is a discipline that seeks to adapt the conditions of the work to the human being, in terms of the adaptability of the human body to the work space and the machinery, seeking comfort, efficiency and safety.
The analysis of ergonomics should be an instrument to adapt the garment to the user’s body, which is an essential task of fashion designers, paying attention to the proportions of the human body, as well as the knowledge of the diversity of sizes of garments and elements of fashion design.

5 ECTS / Annual / 3 hours per weeks

The basic contents in this course are: analysis of the three-dimensional shape,
the processes of artistic abstraction (synthesis, geometrization and stylization as a solution to plastic proposals) and the construction of the volumetric forms from the sketch or first idea to the final work.

4 ECTS / Semester / 4 hours per weeks

Sculptural and spatial languages, concepts, processes and sculptural techniques are used in fashion design in a constant way, and they are essential aspects to understand fashion. The human body is volume, shape and space and, in this sense, cloth must be considered as a tool to modify the body shape, volume or silhouette. This relation between concepts must be used in the creation and designing processes.

4 ECTS / Semester / 5 hours per weeks

Sketches are the tool to illustrate ideas and concepts in a design project. Fashion designers use drawing and sketching as an essential part of the creative process to express their ideas, choose colors and fabrics, and simulate materials or prints. The drawing of the human figure, its proportions, anatomy and poses are also important for fashion and this course includes the study of the human body from a fashion-sketching perspective. This subject requires the student to develop the ability to draw their own fashion sketches at a formal, functional and symbolic level.

7 ECTS / Annual / 3 hours per week

The subject provides students with a basic scientific training and promotes the acquisition of mathematical skills and interaction with the physical and natural environment. In addition, it introduces scientific research methodology in the field of Fashion Design throughout activities and practical exercises. The subject develops both theoretical and practical concepts and techniques and focuses on the applications of mathematics and physics (new fabrics and fibers, research in textile laboratories, etc.).

4 ECTS / Semester / 3 hours per weeks

The subject will consider the ethical aspects related to the activity of fashion design, in relation to care and respect for the environment, the planet, the different societies and cultures, and all the eco friendly and sustainable practices in the fashion industry. Special attention will be paid to the respect for the environment and the appropriate patterns of human behavior will be taken into account in the wheel of consumerism.

4 ECTS / Annual / 2 hours per weeks

The purpose of this subject is to provide the students with knowledge and language elements to allow them to manage situations in English, within a specific context, using technical-commercial vocabulary and expressions and within the professional design field in which they will have to perform at the end of their academic studies. Theoretical classes will be taught but to a greater extent they will be practical classes, in order to achieve a communicative skill.

5 ECTS / Annual / 3 hours per weeks

This course is an introduction to the essential knowledge of the textiles materials and its characteristics (types of fibers, dyes, spinning techniques, etc.),During this course, students will learn how to use the tools and equipment to create textiles in a traditional and artisan way. Experimentation will be key in this course.

II 8 ECTS / Annual / 5 hours per weeks

In a deeper perspective, students will deal with concepts, procedures and attitudes that provide students with intermediate techniques for pattern making and sewing. Students will develop skills and abilities in the use of instruments, tools and machinery more deeply than in the subject in LEVEL 1 in the Year 1 of this programme.

3 ECTS / Semester / 2 hours per weeks

This subject, through the exploration of the historiographical sources and the evolution of the different styles and trends in fashion throughout the history, provides the student with the knowledge of the historical evolution of the clothing and garments, relating them to the cultural context. This course will make the students able to recognize and remember a series of historical and aesthetic references, materials and fashion styles, important for their future as designers.

3 ECTS / Semester / 2 hours per weeks

This subject analyzes the evolution of the shapes and client preferences in fashion throughout history, including an analysis of the current panorama, from the 19th century to the creation of the Fashion houses as we know them nowadays, paying attention to the most remarkable designer of each period. During the course, students will learn the historical evolution of clothing.

6 ECTS / Semester / 6 hours per weeks

The main purpose of this subject is to introduce the students to the essential aspects for a Fashion Design project, through practical exercises in which the students must develop the different parts of the process, follow a methodology, set strategies and do research to come up with good ideas, approaching different solutions to the design problems. The contents are mainly directed to the development of fashion projects for different brands, focusing on technical, functional and communicative aspects of the project.

3 ECTS / Semester / 3 hours per weeks

In this subject students will develop digital skills applied to fashion design. They will work on different tasks such as textile designs, prints, sketching, moodboards, etc.
The use of technology is essential in this course and it is an important instrument to communicate ideas and manage projects.

4 ECTS CREDIT /  semester-long / 4 lessons/week

To understand the importance of the image in fashion is fundamental for a fashion designer. To study and to consider the theories of perception, the expression and the sensation applied to the fashion image, is a key part of the work of a fashion designer. The creation of the concept of fashion image, semiotics of the image, archetypes and stereotypes in the analysis and criticism of trends will be studied in this subject.

8 ECTS CREDIT / semester-long / 6 lessons week

This course is oriented to the production and digital diffusion of the students’ own works and their professional image. They need to learn the use of advanced digital tools for the realization of a digital final art and its introduction in digital media, social networks and forums. During this course, students will create their personal portfolio, understood as a project that evidences their educational development and serves as an instrument for professional presentation.

8 ECTS CREDIT / semester-long / 6 lessons/week

This subject prepares the students to become future fashion stylists and creators of style. It has two main objectives: the first objective is to develop in the student the practical capacities for the design and the creation of the fashion images to sell products and garments; the second objective is to learn about the aesthetic issue in fashion aand to research from the collections made in design in order to create a personal style proposal.

6 ECTS CREDIT / semester-long / 6 lessons/week

The subject focuses on how a fashion designer / costume stylist works in the processes of professional areas related to the performing arts and audiovisual media. This change of register is defined mainly by the conditioning factors of these media on the one hand at the level of language and dialogue with a text or script. The subject is defined in terms of organization and adaptation of work to larger projects aimed at responding to needs of industries and specific aesthetic and production approaches.

2 ECTS CREDIT / semester-long / 2 lessons/week

The main purpose of this subject is to prepare students to perform different professions and activities related to fashion products, providing them with a polyvalent training that allows them to develop an activity at work and business level. It will teach students the knowledge, skills, as well as the use of documentary and technical resources.

2 ECTS CREDIT / semester-long / 2 lessons week

This subject will teach the students to make strategic marketing decisions, based on an analysis of the market and the environment. Thay will analyze the role of marketing and will make decisions concerning the design and development of the product, paying attention to customers’ desires and real needs. Marketing operates at all levels in the fashion system, affects the entire supply chain from product development to retail, and it is as relevant to haute couture as to mass fashion.Students will work on an exhaustive analysis of the marketing process from initial research to the creation of branding and communication campaigns.

8 ECTS CREDIT / semester-long / 5 lessons week

Students can choose an optional subject among those offered in the programme. These optional subject could be the following ones:
Flamenco in Fashion: Pattern making and sewing techniques to create Flamenco dresses.
Fashion Film project: The knowledge of visual tools in fashion is fundamental in the training of its professionals. Knowing their theories, language and expression, is essential for the marketing and dissemination of works and collections, allowing launching a product under an innovative concept.
Printing workshop:students will learn techniques and processes to design and create prints and develop the different printing systems they know, expanding the approaches initiated in the previous course.

8 ECTS Credit / Semester-long / 5 Lessons week

The External Academic Internships are a formative activity carried out by the students of the Higher Artistic Education in Fashion Design in the second semester of the fourth year of these studies. The objective is to apply and complement the knowledge acquired in their academic training, promoting the acquisition of competencies that prepare them for professional activities in the field of fashion and obtaining practical experience that facilitates their integration into the job market, enhancing their future employability and fostering their capacity for innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship.
The External Academic Internships have a total duration of 300 hours and can be carried out in collaborating entities with which the Centre establishes collaboration agreements, such as Fashion Design companies, Communication, Styling, Studios, Workshops or Magazines, Institutions, and public and private entities at the regional, national and international level.
The External Academic Internships are supervised by a qualified professional tutor (Work Tutor) in the host entity and an Academic Tutor from the EASD who is a teacher appointed by the Director and the General Coordinator of External Internships at the Centre.

12 ECTS CREDIT / semester-long / 5 lessons/week

The Final Project pursues the realization of a project that develops a practical project that incorporates the totality of knowledge and competences acquired by the student throughout his training.