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Fashion Design prepares students for entry level positions in
apparel design, fashion design, or free lance design. The program
emphasizes basic principles of design, knowledge of the fashion business,
presentation techniques, and computer aided design.
Fashion
Merchandising prepares students to
enter the retail or wholesale fashion business and progress toward buying,
sales or merchandising positions. Fashion product knowledge, career
pathways, and business operations are stressed in the program.
Fashion Production prepares students to enter the retail or wholesale
fashion business with the ability to produce salable, quality
merchandise. Custom design and production, as well as the business
aspects of working from home as an entrepreneur, are included as topics in
the program.
Costuming is an interdisciplinary program in fashion, drama
and art designed to provide students with design and sewing skills applied
to costuming for the stage, film and television, period or theme
parks. Students will experience actual costume design and production
for the MPC Theater.
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Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of the
program, Fashion Design students will
be able to:
· Demonstrate fundamental design principles using a
variety of media.
· Illustrate design concepts using hand sketching
and computer software.
· Access and use
a variety of design inspiration and trend sources.
· Create patterns using a variety of methods.
· Sew and execute a finished product.
· Recognize professional quality indicators for
textile and apparel products.
· Apply interpersonal skills that support career
success, such as self-awareness and teamwork.
· Showcase work in a format such as a portfolio or
presentation board.
· Demonstrate a working knowledge of the fashion
industry.
Upon successful completion of the
program, Fashion Merchandising
students will be able to:
· Describe and explain the creation of a fashion
line from vision to design, product development, and production.
· Professionally communicate as
thinkers, readers, writers, speakers, and listeners.
· Demonstrate customer service, sales techniques, and
general business and marketing practices.
· Identify basic textiles and their required care
as applied to apparel merchandising.
· Analyze and evaluate fashion elements of apparel,
wardrobe, and textiles.
· Describe quality indicators for apparel and accessories.
· Use business technology tools.
· Demonstrate knowledge of levels of the fashion
business and the importance of target marketing.
· Apply interpersonal skills
that support career success, such as self-awareness and teamwork.
Upon
successful completion of the program, Fashion
Production students will be able to:
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Demonstrate intermediate to advanced soft goods fitting and construction
skills.
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Recognize professional quality indicators for textile and apparel
products.
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Select fabric and product care appropriate to end use.
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Produce and market salable merchandise using quality materials.
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Set up and maintain a home based or small business using appropriate
business and marketing practices.
· Showcase work in a format such as a portfolio or
presentation board.
Upon successful completion of the Fashion Costuming
program, students will be able to:
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Identify period costumes and use contemporary textiles to reproduce
costumes.
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Design costumes for a play using accurate period representation.
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Use a variety of sources of information to do research for theater
assignments.
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Relate the roles of lighting, stage sets, color and costume design
in the production of a show.
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Apply interpersonal skills that support career success, such as
self-awareness and teamwork.
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Construct costumes appropriate for the role, and authentic to the
intent, of the production.
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Draw working illustrations/sketches for use in costume design.
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