Course General Description

The Bachelor of Visual Arts in Fashion and Textile programme offers you the opportunity to explore your interest in these specialist areas. These areas include formal design and business skills relating to the fashion, interiors and textile industry or technological innovation relating to high-technology and natural fibres, printing, knitting and weaving systems. The Fashion programme as well as the Fashion and Textiles programme (2 different qualifications) are housed in a large, single-building facility on the 2nd Avenue campus in Port Elizabeth. As a Fashion and/or Textile student at Nelson Mandela University, you will be exposed to both textile and fashion design processes in a single integrated programme. This renders our programme unique in that is makes it possible for you to design and print a range of textiles; create a range of fashion garments or interior related furnishings and products made from your own textiles.

School General Description

Nelson Mandela University (NMU), formerly known as University of Port Elizabeth (UPE), is a South African university with its main administration in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth. Nelson Mandela University was founded through a merger of three institutions in January 2005, but its history dates back to 1882, with the foundation of the Port Elizabeth Art School. Nelson Mandela University is a comprehensive university offering professional and vocational training. The University has seven campuses – six in Port Elizabeth and one in George. The main campus of the university is South Campus. Students at Nelson Mandela University can study towards a diploma or a degree up to doctoral level qualifications. A number of courses include workplace experience as part of the curriculum at Nelson Mandela University. English is the university's medium of instruction.