This vocational program provides the technical skills and product background necessary to work under the direction of a designer in technical apparel jobs such as pattern making, grading, and sketching in ready-to-wear or theater costumes. Emphasis is placed on developing vocational skills including computer applications current to fashion design manufacturing.
MAJOR REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ASSOCIATE DEGREE AND CERTIFICATE:
FDM 100
| Introduction to Fashion
| 3 |
FDM 103
| Fashion Selection
| 3 |
FDM 104
| Textile Fibers and Fabrics (Fall semester only)
| 3 |
| FDM 105A | Beginning Sewing | 3
|
| FDM 109 | Flat Pattern Drafting (Fall semester only)
| 3.5
|
FDM 111A
| Fashion Illustration | 3
|
FDM 113
| Fashion Draping (Spring semester only)
| 3.5 |
FDM 114
| 3D Design (Fall semester only)
| 3
|
FDM 215
| Computer Fashion Illustration
| 3
|
| FDM 216 | Computer Pattern Design (Spring semester only)
| 1
|
| FDM 299 | Cooperative Work Experience Education
| 1-4 |
IN ADDITION, SELECT 6 OR MORE UNITS FROM THE FOLLOWING LIST:
Entrepreneurship 120 | Introduction to Working as a Freelance Independent Contractor | 1 |
|---|
Entrepreneurship 121 | People Skills for the Freelancer | 1 |
|---|
Entrepreneurship 122 | Opportunities in Freelance Industries and Trades | 1 |
|---|
Entrepreneurship 123 | Marketing to Attract Customers and Grow Your Freelance Business | 1 |
|---|
Entrepreneurship 124 | Survival Finance and Accounting for the Freelancer-Show Me the Money | 1 |
|---|
Entrepreneurship 125 | Launch Your Freelance Business | 1 |
|---|
FDM 052
| Knit Sewing | 2 |
|---|
| FDM 058 | Decorative Apparel | .5 |
|---|
FDM 080
| Embroidery
| 1.5
|
|---|
FDM 081
| Fabric Printing | 1.5
|
|---|
| FDM 101 | Buying and Merchandising | 3 |
|---|
| FDM 102 | Promotion & Coordination | 3 |
|---|
| FDM 105B | Intermediate Sewing | 2 |
|---|
| FDM 106 | Advanced Sewing | 3 |
|---|
FDM 107
| Custom Tailoring | 2 |
|---|
FDM 125
| Display Merchandising | 3 |
|---|
FDM 140
| Fashion E-Commerce
| 3
|
|---|
FDM 213 | Apparel Line Production | 2 |
|---|
NOTE: Degree students should select general education course requirements that include Psychology, Sociology and Speech Communication because of the human relationship skills essential to this vocation
