Vision:?

To empower graduates to excel in a variety of careers such as design, product development, buying, retail management, and fashion promotion.

Learning Goals

The Fashion Design and Retailing Major has two concentrations: Apparel Design (UFDA) and Merchandising (UFDM). ?

Fashion Design and Retailing Students enrolled in the Apparel Design Concentration (UFDA) will:

• Apply the principles of design, motives of dress, business cycles, and the soft goods chain to the overall fashion industry.
• Investigate and evaluate the interrelationship of textile products, apparel production methods, and product life cycle.
• Research the major factors that affect the design, purchase, and trade of apparel and textiles to create a well written research project.
• Analyze the apparel design and retailing industry in the world marketplace.
• Identify, describe, demonstrate and evaluate apparel construction and production methods.
• Create and develop original apparel designs from initial concept to finished garment utilizing flat pattern, draping, tailoring, and couture techniques.
• Draw fashion illustrations and flat sketches, by hand and on computerized systems to create an illustrated collection of designs and garment specification/product development materials.
• Develop and present orally and visually a professional quality portfolio of original design ideas and concept boards to demonstrate product knowledge and terminology used in the apparel industry.