GIU Faculty of Design
If design is your passion, excel and join our GIU design elite.
German International University (GIU) offers industry-focused and future-oriented Bachelors, Masters and PhD Degrees in the following specializations and majors of the Faculty of Design.
English is the Teaching Language
Faculty Dean:
Study duration: 8 semesters (4 years) + 1.5 Years (Master's)
Degrees awarded: Bachelors, Masters of Science Degrees
Majors Offered: (choose one)
- Fashion Design
- Industrial Design
Why GIU Faculty of Design?
- This academic program transfers artistic skills and techniques from conception to design and product realization using highest available technology and up-to-date processes in design project with the industry.
- A strong emphasis of our courses is exceptionally made to elaborate further on how the Fashion and Industrial Design concepts that focus respectively on the development and manufacturing of industrial products, consumer goods, vehicles, tools packaging, as well as menswear, knitwear, products marketing, and fashion business management. Students are also qualified in various areas of industrial and fashion design, costume design, and textile design, materials usage and process innovation.
- Facilities provided include – but are not limited to - in studio-style classrooms that give emphasis to the evolution of individual visions and thought through group discussions and collective technical fashion transfer of the various team members.
- International professionals, lecturers and students function as a design team that takes part in show-room exhibitions, graduate fashion shows, industrial design projects and much more.
Privileges & Competitive Edge
- Wide reaching influencers in local and international communities
- Innovative product and fashion designers experimenting with new material, new technologies
- Stylist with a very rich Egyptian identity and a novel view of the world
- Global citizens with a universal sustainable approach
- Creators of new international brands offering inspirational products and fashion lines to key iconic figures in Egypt, the region and the world
- Fashion and industry professional experts using scarce resources to meet current and future needs
- Capable managers
- Insightful consultants able to analyze consumer trends.
- A variety of travel options for one or more semester abroad exchange programs and/or industry- related workshops, extracurricular activities and excursions are offered.
Major Descriptions, Courses Overview & Job Profiles
Fashion Design
If fashion is your passion, this major may be custom-made for you!
(Source: HTW Berlin University of Applied Sciences)
Fashion Design degree program qualifies students in the areas of fashion design, costume design and textile design. It transfers artistic skills and techniques for conception, design and product realization.
Fashion Design concept focusses development and manufacturing, menswear, knitwear, fashion marketing and business management. Students become experts and learn how to analyze consumer trends that ultimately influence inventory purchases. Fashion design Students take courses in studio-style classrooms that give emphasis to individual vision and collective technical fashion skills and techniques. Students will be able to harness their own individual concepts and designs and to function as part of a fashion design team.
First Semester
Course Name | ECTS |
Form and Material | 6 |
Visual Communication | 5 |
Still Image | 5 |
Visual Techniques | 4 |
Digital Media | 2 |
Text Language, Communication | 4 |
English for Academic purposes and study skills | 2 |
German Language I | 2 |
Second Semester
Course Name | ECTS |
Design Basics I | 10 |
Fashion Technology I | 10 |
Design Theory I | 6 |
Critical Thinking and Scientific Methods | 2 |
German Language II | 2 |
Third Semester
Course Name | ECTS |
Conceptual Design Basics | 10 |
Fashion Technology II | 5 |
Textile materials | 5 |
Design Theory II | 6 |
Communication & Presentation Skills | 2 |
German Language III | 2 |
Fourth Semester
Course Name | ECTS |
Design Main Project I | 10 |
Design Short Term Project I | 5 |
Fashion Technology III: CAD/Fashion II, Portfolio, Technical Drawing | 5 |
Digital Documentation | 6 |
Research Paper Writing | 2 |
German Language IV | 2 |
Fifth semester
Course Name | ECTS |
Design Main Project II | 10 |
Multi Media and Fashion Event | 5 |
Product Management, Calculation | 5 |
Fashion Technology IV | 5 |
Presentation, Rhetoric, Portfolio | 5 |
Sixth Semester
Course Name | ECTS |
Design Main Project III | 15 |
Design Short Term Project II | 5 |
Fashion Management and Marketing | 8 |
General Studies: Ethic and Law | 2 |
Seventh semester
Course Name | ECTS |
Bachelor Thesis and Colloquium | 20 |
Design Concept | 10 |
Eighth semester
Course Name | ECTS |
Internship | 20 |
Internship-Accompanying Seminar | 5 |
Business Ethics | 5 |
ECTS: The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
*Changes may occur to this curriculum without prior notice.
Industrial Design
Tough global competition, environmental concerns, and increasingly scarce resources today demand that industrial design take a new direction
Are you ready for the challenge!
In today’s tough consumer-driven markets, global competition is in continuous rise. development cycles are becoming very fast and consumers’ preferences are in rapid and continuous change which made it crucial for manufacturers to employ industrial designers.
Industrial design guides students in creating, developing and introducing new products and services that improves human experience through solving arising problems and filling market gaps. Industrial design helps employers gain competitive advantages by introducing strong contributors who are capable of linking technical, artistic and human scientific aspects with economic and social interests.
First Semester
Course Name | ECTS |
Form and Material | 6 |
Visual Communication | 5 |
Still Image | 5 |
Visual Techniques | 4 |
Digital Media | 2 |
Text Language, Communication | 4 |
English for Academic Purposes and Study Skills | 2 |
German Language I | 2 |
Second Semester
Course Name | ECTS |
Design Basics I | 10 |
Design Basics II | 10 |
Design Theory I | 6 |
Critical Thinking and Scientific Methods | 2 |
German Language II | 2 |
Third Semester
Course Name | ECTS |
Conceptual Design Basics I | 10 |
Conceptional Design Basic II | 10 |
Design Theory II | 6 |
Communication & Presentation Skills | 2 |
German Language III | 2 |
Fourh Semester
Course Name | ECTS |
Design Main Project I | 10 |
Design Short Term Project I | 5 |
Material/Sustainable Manufacturing | 6 |
CAD / 3-D Prototyping | 5 |
Research Paper Writing | 2 |
German Language IV | 2 |
Fifth semester
Course Name | ECTS |
Design Main Project II | 12 |
Sustainable Design process | 8 |
Design Discourse I | 5 |
Presentation , Rhetoric and Portfolio | 5 |
Sixth Semester
Course Name | ECTS |
Design Main Project III | 15 |
Design - Short Term Project II | 5 |
Universal Design Thinking and Intercultural Competence | 8 |
General Studies: Ethic and Law | 2 |
Seventh semester
Course Name | ECTS |
Bachelor Thesis and colloquium | 20 |
Design Concept | 10 |
Eighth semester
Course Name | ECTS |
Internship | 20 |
Internship - Accompanying Seminar | 5 |
Business Ethics | 5 |
ECTS: The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
*Changes may occur to this curriculum without prior notice.