LISOF’s part-time short courses offer you just the opportunity to try something new in the exciting multi-faceted world of fashion. Browse through the courses from Patternmaking to Make-Up to even Fashion Design itself and discover what sparks your interest. Part-time short courses could provide the spring board to achieving your sense of fulfilment. Fashion and beauty skills can be complemented by many other skill bases such as marketing, retail or the media and allow you to add another string to your bow.
The part-time short courses naturally don’t hold the same depth and breadth of LISOF’s full-time study programmes but they certainly are viable alternatives and possibly the beginning of a new journey of adventure into fashion and beauty. Combining a range of different skills can jettison one from narrow to broad in terms of success as demonstrated by many entrepreneurs in the fashion industries, both locally and abroad.
LISOF’s full-time programmes are accredited by the Council for Higher Education, and as the part-time short courses are drawn down from the full-time curricula, they enjoy the same accreditation status. However, the limited duration of part-time short courses (less than 1200 hours in one academic year) prevents them from being registered on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). Check “Criteria and Guidelines for Short Courses and Skills Programmes” on the SAQA website for short course training prerequisites. The limited duration of LISOF part-time short courses does not sacrifice the quality of the subject material which straddles NQF levels 4 and 5, making it accessible to late high school students (Grade 10 or 16 yr olds) but better suited to post-high school and adult students.
LISOF’s part-time qualifications are presented at our campus in Johannesburg over a period of 24 Saturday mornings in two separate cycles – one starting at the beginning of the year and one starting mid-year.
LISOF offers five part-time short courses. These include Fashion Design, Garment Construction (Sewing), Make-Up Level 01, Make-Up Level 02 and Patternmaking. Each of these short courses is explained in full by making a selection from the navigation bar on the left. The explanations cover career opportunities; admission criteria and selection procedures (if any); the structure of the curriculum and subject choices that must be made (if any); information relating to the international recognition of our short courses; and, information for international students. All information relating to a particular part-time short course can be printed by downloading and printing the Pdf document at the end of the description of the short course.