The highest point of the didactic course of this Two-year Specialisation Course in Fashion and Textile Design is the final Dissertation, where the students have to submit and defend their Thesis in front of a Committee, made up by their professors and Course Leaders.
The two-years course Thesis takes the form of an in-depth research aimed at carrying out a project. The final document is represented by the presentation of the research and of the project documents, and aims at proving the critical and design competences acquired
by the student over the study course.
The development of their Thesis is something that every student will carry out independently and in com-
plete autonomy. During the process, each student will be supported by at least one Mentor (“Relatore”), who needs to approve the project proposition, guide the student in developing their research and, finally, approve the dissertation of the final Thesis work.
The final dissertation is individual. Upon the Course Leader authorization, the research can start as a collective work carried out by a group of students, up to 4 participants. The final presentation of the project will necessarily be represented by a personal document, and the role of each student needs to be defined since the approval of the project proposal.
The final assessment of each student at the end of the Two-year Specialisation Course in Fashion and Textile Design is the sum of the admission grade to the final Dissertation, and the grade awarded to the presentation of the final Thesis.
The admission grade to the Dissertation, expressed in one hundred and tenths (on a 0-110 scale), is calculated as a weighted average of all the grades, in thirtieths (on a 0-30 scale), received by the student over the entire two-year Specialisation Course in Fashion and Textile Design. The weighted average takes into consideration the credits granted by each teaching. The Dissertation Committee can award an extra 0 to 10 points to the admission grade, based on the Thesis quality, and on the overall critical and design skills shown by the candidate.
The bibliographic directions for the Dissertation work are provided by the Mentor over the research development. A lot of the referenced material, together with other in-depth study material, can be consulted online in MyNaba, in the Library section.