Course content

As an exchange student you can choose courses from the first and second year.

Total:

30 ECTS

First and second years

In the first two years, students work on projects related to Buying, Materials and Collections and attend a wide range of lectures on topics including textile basics, business management and marketing. You also work on your linguistic and financial skills. Each term is dedicated to a particular theme: Into The Future, Buying, Collections or Materials.

Third and fourth years

You can also participate in the Smart Solutions Semester (25 ECTS). During this semester you work in interdisciplinary teams on assignments from companies or one of our Research Groups, implementing technological developments in your field. It is also possible to apply for an internship at our Research Group Sustainable & Functional Textiles. More information about it could be found here.

A team of several enthusiastic lecturers, many of whom have worked in the textiles sector, will teach you using modern real-life business cases in a challenging and inspiring learning community with state-of-the art facilities. Lessons are held in a fantastic new building with lots of glass and light, providing a home base for around 700 enthusiastic Dutch and international students who are keen to immerse themselves in all aspects of today’s world of textiles.

The lecturers are very helpful in sharing their knowledge and experience, whilst encouraging your personal development as well. The course programme is varied, comprising a mix of lectures, seminars, practical sessions and projects, ensuring all the material covered is directly relevant to practical situations in the textiles business.

Commerce I

The student studies basic economical terms and learn how to set up balance sheets, income statements, financial plans. Calculating and interpreting financial ratios is also part of this course.

  • Instructional format: Seminars, lectures
  • Testing: Digital exam
  • Equals 84 hours of work during the quarter, including classes

3 ECTS

Basics Textiles I

The student learns how to identify fibre types (vegetable, animal and manmade) and learns about the properties and applications of the fibres, and yarns. Spinning is also part of this module.

  • Instructional format: Seminars, lectures
  • Testing: Digital exam
  • Equals 84 hours of work during the quarter, including classes

3 ECTS

Language & Writing

This module consists of two different parts: Language and Writing.

In Language the student will brush up on their English grammar skills.

In Writing the student will learn the basics about using sources in written texts (APA) and academic writing.

  • Instructional format: Seminars, lectures
  • Testing: Report (Writing) and Hogeschool test (digital test) for Language
  • Equals 84 hours of work during the quarter, including classes

3 ECTS

Project Into the future 1

The student develops competencies, which are required for a responsible professional, such as how to reflect on your own actions, how to write a report and do proper research and how to organise an effective meeting. The students make a first plan version of their personal development plan. This plan will be updated and discussed four times a year each year. The student also works on basic skills in garment making, fashion history, weaving and knitting, how to work at a chemical and mechanical laboratory, including safety measures and Photoshop. Furthermore, the student visits two
companies (one textile company and one fashion company) as a first contact with the professional field. During the practical lessons, the students work on their portfolio. This portfolio will be continued throughout the four years of the Bachelor Programme.

  • Instructional format: Workshops, seminars, practical lessons, company visits
  • Testing: Assessment
  • Equals 168 hours of work during the quarter, including classes

6 ECTS 

Commerce II

The student learns to describe different key elements of marketing, such as a marketing plan, competitor analysis and B2C buying situations. Besides the analysis of the Boston Consulting Group, the student learns how to work with the
value chain of Porter and the growth strategies of Ansoff.

  • Instructional format: Lectures, seminars
  • Testing: Digital exam
  • Equals 84 hours of work during the quarter, including classes

3 ECTS

Basics Textiles II

This module consists of weaving/knitting (theory). The student learns the basics of weaving/knitting on industrial machines.

  • Instructional format: Lectures, seminars
  • Testing: Digital exam
  • Equals 84 hours of work during the quarter, including classes

3 ECTS

Research Design

The student will learn how to write a research proposal.

  • Instructional format: Lectures, seminars
  • Testing: Assessment (report)
  • Equals 84 hours of work during the quarter, including classes

3 ECTS

Project collection I

In this project students develop a collection for a specific target group.

  • Instructional format: Lectures, workshops, Show & Checks
  • Testing: Assessment (end product and presentation pitch)
  • Equals 168 hours of work during the quarter, including classes

6 ECTS

Commerce III

The student learns to calculate cost prices, waste and scrap values and define types of costs. In the second part of the module, the student works with capital budgeting methods; payback period, average book rate of return and net present value.

  • Instructional format: Lectures, seminars
  • Testing: Digital exam
  • Equals 84 hours of work during the quarter, including classes

3 ECTS

Basics Textiles III

Nonwovens and knitting on industrial machines (theory). Continuation of the second quarter.

  • Instructional format: Lectures (one of which is a business case prepared by students) and practical lessons
  • Testing: Digital exam
  • Equals 84 hours of work during the quarter including classes

3 ECTS

English Grammar

The student reviews the basics of English Grammar (at a B2 level) and vocabulary.

  • Instructional format: Lectures, seminars
  • Testing: Digital test
  • Equals 84 hours of work during the quarter, including classes

3 ECTS

Project Buying I

The student makes a start in how to become an international buyer. He/she learns about the basic rules of buying, intercultural communication, ethics, laws and regulations, costs and pricing and social responsibility. He/she also learns everything about the supply chain and how to set up a product specification with software like Excel and Illustrator, and
to check these specifications with the help of quality research.

  • Instructional format: Lectures, seminars
  • Testing: Assessment and product – Schematic representation and fact sheets from the supply chain, including technical packs and testing templates.
  • Equals 168 hours of work during the quarter, including classes

6 ECTS

Commerce IV

The student learns to describe the elements of marketing, product and brand, pricing and distribution policies, as well as the elements of promotion and communication policies. The calculation of distribution ratios will be discussed during the second part of the course.

  • Instructional format: Seminars and lectures
  • Testing: Digital Exam
  • Equals 84 hours of work during the quarter, including classes

3 ECTS

Basics Textiles IV

Advanced weaving/knitting.

  • Instructional format: Practical lessons and seminars
  • Testing: Digital exam
  • Equals 84 hours of work during the quarter, including classes

3 ECTS

Business English I

The student learns to use important textile and business economic terms in English. The student learns how to read and understand specialist literature in English.

  • Instructional format: Seminars
  • Testing: Written exam
  • Equals 84 hours of work during the quarter, including classes

3 ECTS

Project Materials I

In this project the students will do research on a textile product of his/her choice. The first part of the project is all about questions and finding the answers. What is it made of? How is it made? Why is made this way? What are the functional requirements of this product? Why does it look like it does and how was this achieved? Why...? The second part is about innovation. What can you do to make this product better, different, more sustainable, etc. With the guidance of your instructors, the student will develop an innovative alternative for this product.

  • Instructional format:
  • Testing: Assessment
  • Equals 168 hours of work during the quarter, including classes

6 ECTS

Basics Textiles V

Textile chemistry: the student will acquire knowledge of atoms and molecules, the periodic system, inter and intramolecular forces, hydrocarbons, basics of the orbital and hybridisation theory, basics of polymer chemistry, and structures and properties of textile polymers. Finishing: the student learns about pre-treatment processes on several
textile materials, colours, dyeing materials and methods

  • Instructional format: Lectures, seminars
  • Testing: 2 written exams
  • Equals 140 hours of work during the quarter including classes

5 ECTS

Garment Construction Techniques

The student learns the techniques of basic pattern drafting manually, combined with making several designs on the sewing machine.

  • Instructional format: Practical lessons and free working hours
  • Testing: Assignments
  • Equals 84 hours of work during the quarter including classes

3 ECTS

Project Buying II 

The student develops her/himself further in the field of buying. Based on own made product specifications, he/she will actually place an order with a foreign (fictive) supplier after price negotiation that will proceed with sample making. Within different professional roles, the project group will also develop a new collection including sourcing for material and accessories. Students will learn how to use a PDM system.

  • Instructional format: Seminars and workshops
  • Testing: Assessment and product (Buying Plan)
  • Equals 196 hours of work during the quarter including classes

7 ECTS

Basics Textiles VI

Knitting technology: knitwear (warp and weft), application of knitwear in the technical sector (meditech, protech, mobitech and geotech) and about knitwear in fashion applications. Finishing 2: dyeing, printing, coating and lamination.

  • Instructional format: Theoretical lessons and self-study
  • Testing: 2 written exams
  • Equals 140 hours of work during the quarter including classes

5 ECTS

Business English II

The student formulates his/her own learning goals, makes an implementation plan on how to reach these goals and carries them out.

  • Instructional format: Lectures, seminars
  • Testing: Portfolio
  • Equals 84 hours of work during the quarter including classes

3 ECTS

Project Materials II

The student takes an existing product and makes a Life Cycle Analysis of the product in order to get a clear insight into the production process. The two most polluting stages within the production process will be selected and a plan will be made to make them more sustainable, in order to get an improved ecological footprint. In the end the student delivers the new product and material and a renewed LCA. All of this is done in a methodologically sound manner.

  • Instructional format: Group research project for a company with weekly tutoring hours.
  • Testing: Assessment
  • Equals 196 hours of work during the quarter including classes

7 ECTS

Basics Textiles VII

Finishing: Mechanical and chemical finishing, and Fashion Fabrics.

  • Instructional format: Lectures, seminars
  • Testing: 2 written exams
  • Equals 140 hours of work during the quarter including classes

5 ECTS

Digital Product Development

The student learns to work with 3D design software (CLO 3D) that allows fashion designers to work in a more streamlined and sustainable way. The student will go through several steps necessary to develop a prototype, but instead of the traditional sampling process, it will be done digitally, which creates less waste.

  • Instructional format: Seminars
  • Testing: Assessment
  • Equals 84 hours of work during the quarter including classes

3 ECTS

Project Into The Future II

The student learns to formulate a research question, based on the requirements of a company, design a research approach that matches the research question, make well-founded choices in the research process on 1) delineating the research topic, 2) formulating research questions, 3) operationalizing, 4) methods for data collection, 5) validation of
conclusions, 6) oral and written presentation of results. The student also learns to carry out a research project in a group that is methodologically sound and is based on a specific research demand from the professional field, cooperate, ask focused question and process feedback and present research results.

  • Instructional format: Group research project for a company with weekly tutoring hours.
  • Testing: Assessment
  • Equals 196 hours of work during the quarter including classes

7 ECTS

Basics Textiles VIII

Textile Technology, Sport fabrics and high-performance textiles.

  • Instructional format: Lectures, seminars
  • Testing: Written exam
  • Equals 140 hours of work during the quarter including classes

5 ECTS

General Professional Development

This is an on-going module. Students carry out extracurricular activities that have to do with the course (for example they go on educational trips, help out with open days, visit museums, are buddies for international students). Afterwards they write a reflection report on this.

  • Instructional format: None
  • Testing: Evaluation by study coach
  • Equals 84 hours of work during the quarter including classes

3 ECTS

Project Collection II

The key element in the project is the coherence of design & styling, sourcing, retail marketing (sales) and visual merchandising of a global brand in a wide range of apparel products and related accessories. The student will learn to
make a realistic collection. The collection needs to be translated into a digital visualized in a webshop.

  • Instructional format: Consultation and classes that will support the development of the project
  • Testing: Assessment
  • Equals 196 hours of work during the quarter including classes

7 ECTS

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