Program Aims, Goals and Objectives
ECUSTA – MARY HELP COLLEGE – Zway Campus aspires to fulfil the need in Ethiopian Society for educating communities by providing integral and quality education for young people, especially from the disadvantaged areas, inspired by the spirit and style of Don Bosco and Mary Mazzarello.
ECUSTA – Mary Help College – Zway Campus aims to reach out to the needs of the young people, in order to enable them to become responsible people and honest citizens, and to offer their best contributions to the growth of the society and of the Country through their profession.
ECUSTA – Mary Help College – Zway Campus is an academic community composed of academic and administrative staff and students. In a systematic, critical, and proactive way, it promotes the development of the human person and of the cultural heritage of society through research, teaching, higher and ongoing education, and diverse services offered to local, national, and international communities.
General Objectives
Fashion Design is one of the main fields that can play leading roles in the economic development of a country. The main objectives of fashion design program are to provide broad-based education and training in fashion design; to enable graduates to be creative, adaptable, problem solver in the challenges of the professions in rapidly changing environment that exists in the globe. These changes require the ability to apply existing knowledge in new ways thereby creating new systems and opportunities as well as adapting existing Ethiopian traditional design. Moreover, it aims to initiate, develop and sustain research activities that are critical for the conditioning of advancement of the Ethiopian textile and garment sectors involved in fashion design. Fashion/Garment industry faces a major crunch in terms of well-trained manpower in the area of design with adequate grasp of the technical and cultural matters. This work force should be enabled to implement the decisions taken at higher levels.
The Fashion design program prepares students from diverse backgrounds to be fashion innovators by providing a professional environment in which students learn by working in tandem with top designers.
Specifics Objectives
The graduates of the “B.Sc. Fashion Design” study program shall acquire the following capabilities and skills:
- Expand and perfect their artistic skills and creativities to support and enhance their future design careers.
- Learn necessary technical skills related to apparel construction.
- Develop a systematic, critical approach to problem solving at all levels of the design process and acquire design research skill.
- Acquire extensive professional information regarding fashion design.
- Demonstrate professionalism by meeting deadlines, effectively collaborating in teams, and working with professional designers.
- View fashion design in a broader socio economic, historical, and environmental context.
- Successfully articulate design ideas verbally, visually, and digitally.
- Communication skills and team spirit which enables to work with various professionals.