Fashion Technology: Design Certificate of Achievement

Award Description:

The Fashion Technology: Design Certificate of Achievement degree offers students courses that prepare them for work in the Fashion Design field. The emphasis on technological training provides students with a solid background that expands career options to include a growing number of fashion industry positions requiring strong computer and software skills. Students are trained to work with digital fashion design and illustration, computerized patternmaking, technical design, textile and graphic design, and Internet sales and marketing.

Program Description: 

The Fashion program offers a variety of courses that allow students to develop skills to pursue careers in Fashion and Costume Design, Fashion Merchandising, Fashion Technology: Design, Fashion Technology: Merchandising, and related fashion careers. With a high emphasis on technology, both computer and equipment-based, students obtain skills that assist them in securing positions and advance in the fashion field. Coursework is supplemented with participation in field excursions, guest lecturers, work experience positions, and opportunities that involve the local fashion community. Much of the emphasis of the program is on active student learning and participation in class and campus activities that involve leadership and planning. A strong advisory board of fashion professionals provides input to the program and supports various activities on and off-campus.

Program Goals:

The goal of the Fashion Program is to provide students with technical and career skills that allow them to enter the fashion industry with a balance of knowledge, theory, and practical training. We strive to provide students with quality instruction, utilizing current technology and equipment, and relevant curriculum.

Program Emphasis:

The Fashion Program is designed for students interested in pursuing a fashion related career. Students gain practical, technical and knowledge-based skills in their area of emphasis. In addition they gain an understanding of career opportunities and a working knowledge of the various components of the constantly changing fashion industry. 

Students may specialize in one of four areas, including: Fashion and Costume Design, Fashion Merchandising, Fashion Technology: Design or Fashion Technology: Merchandising.

Students planning to transfer to a four-year institution should consult the counseling department and a Fashion faculty advisor for assistance in program planning.

Career Options:

Fashion Design: Careers in the areas of fashion design, costume design, technical design, pattern making, draper, sewist, sample making, merchandising, illustration, textiles, textile and print designer, or tailor.

Fashion Merchandising: Careers in the areas of merchandising, retail management, fashion sales, fashion buying, promotion, visual merchandising, fashion styling, fashion marketing, stylist, manufacturer’s sales rep, piece good, or trim buyer.

20-24 students per year

The goal of the Fashion Program is to provide students with technical and career skills that allow them to enter the fashion industry with a balance of knowledge, theory, and practical training. We strive to provide students with quality instruction, utilizing current technology and equipment, and relevant curriculum.

Objectives

The goal of the Fashion Program is to provide students with technical and career skills that allow them to enter the fashion industry with a balance of knowledge, theory, and practical training. We strive to provide students with quality instruction, utilizing current technology and equipment, and relevant curriculum.

Award SLOs –  

Students who complete the Fashion Technology: Design Certificate of Achievement will be able to: 

• Students will have the ability to demonstrate effective communication and critical thinking through oral presentations and written work.

• Students will have the ability to use current technology such as computers, peripherals, and software or sewing equipment pertinent to fashion design or merchandising.

• Students will have the ability to compare and contrast how various cultures and countries interrelate in the global fashion community.

• Students will achieve a set of skills that keeps them current and allows them to secure employment in the Fashion industry.

Students will be assessed through a combination of performance evaluations, written assignments, and written tests and quizzes. 

Program Modification

Title Change from Computer Fashion Technology: Design to Fashion Technology: Design

Reduction of Units for the Major from 31 to 28-29 by removing FASH 173 and CBTE 180, and adding FASH 270 (Work Experience) with variable units.

No course content changes.