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NIFT now offers BCA course

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CIOL Bureau
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NEW DELHI: National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), the country's

premier fashion institute, has always been setting international benchmarks in

teaching Indian fashion education. Keeping in tune with this trend, the

institute has decided to adopt information technology in all its areas of

application.

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It recently tied up with Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), to

offer Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) course to enhance the existing

Fashion Designing and Information Technology (FDIT) course. The curriculum is a

blend of subjects, approved by IGNOU and NIFT. Any student, who enrolls with

IGNOU for a regular BCA course, can also appear for an entrance exam in NIFT for

the FDIT course.

The docket designed course that will help students to get acquainted with the

developments in the field of fashion and IT at NIFT. Apprentices will thus

acquire a diploma in Fashion and IT from NIFT and a BCA degree from IGNOU.

The course is Mathematics-specific, making it tough for students who opt for

Humanities in the secondary level to choose Fashion Designing as a career option

after completing the intermediate. This will help in streamlining the admission

process, and thereby assure quality students. The course is limited to only 60

students.

Some of the subjects that will be covered in the course are - elements of

design, surface ornamentation, fashion art and illustration, history of

Indian/Western costumes, pattern-making, draping, grading and marker-making,

garment construction, fabric science and marketing. These will also include

diploma projects, industry training and graduate fashion show.

The course will come under the purview of the Department of Information

Technology (DIT) at NIFT. The course aims at blending IT with fashion to give a

wide exposure to the student in this field. NIFT has also set up a campus-wide

fiber of 100 MBPS switched network backbone that connects all the departments.

NIFT is an authorized training center for Autodesk, Corel, Info-Design of

France, Bentley Corporation of USA, and Lectra of France.

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