Students are expected to learn the following within the Fashion Design program:
- Fashion Careers
- Identify career options.
- Explain how their fashion skills can be used in the fashion industry.
- Technical Fashion Design Skills
- Implement the skills of design in the fashion design process.
- Execute a product/concept which demonstrates elements of design (i.e., style, color, proportion, fabrication, etc).
- Conduct market research from a design or retailing perspective, analyze the market information, and make an informed decision based upon the data.
- Fashion Industry
- Analyze the ways in which social and psychological relations and human experiences have changed and influenced the fashion industry.
- Use critical and ethical reasoning to explain how the fashion industry is impacted by current events.
- Identify ethical issues that impact the fashion industry and identify possible responses.
- Analyze design products for the influence of history, culture, and diversity.
- Apply knowledge of world cultures to design products.
- Communication and Collaboration
- Implement collaboration skills in the development of work.
- Use current and relevant design and retailing software.
- Speak, read, and write effectively and access, evaluate, utilize, and organize information from a variety of sources.