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end of the course students will able to use various software
tools for fabric design in order to create an engineered print
as well as all-over textile design, repeats, and color ways.
Students will be able to print their designs on fabric and use
their textile print in an actual finished garment. Prerequisites:
FD 221 Patternmaking: Flat Pattern and FD 255 Digital
Techniques in Fashion Illustration
FM 361 Fashion Promotion
3 credits (CS)
Students will gain an overview of promotion practices in the
apparel design, product development, manufacturing, and
retail merchandising environment, including promotion
planning and budgeting, special event organization,
advertising, public relations, publicity, fashion show
production, and visual merchandising. Students will identify
current trends in fashion promotion, visual merchandising,
and production of fashion shows as well as evaluate the
effectiveness of promotion practices in the retail
merchandising environment. Prerequisite: FM 131 Survey of
the Global Apparel Industry
FD/FM 365 Product Development Principles
3 credits (CS)
This course provides specific knowledge and skills necessary
to evaluate and create the apparel products found in the
ready-to-wear industry. Students will be introduced to the
product development process and learn the basic skills
needed to take an apparel product from conception to
consumption. Students will analyze ready-to-wear garments
using industry standards related to end uses. Students will
learn the basics of technical packets and be able to identify all
the information needed to document the process in which to
take a garment from idea to end use. Students will be able to
use their knowledge of technical packets to build a fashion
portfolio that demonstrates knowledge of apparel design,
garment construction, and industry standards.
FD/FM 366 Product Development Applications
3 credits (CS)
Students will gain a better understanding of the product
development cycle as it pertains to specific target markets
through a series of projects that capitalizes on the skills
learned in FD/FM Product Development Principles.
Students will develop the ability to forecast, plan,
conceptualize, source, spec, construct, grade and price for a
defined user group and produce garments that are marketable
for their defined user group. Designers and merchandisers
will work in teams to create production samples and technical
packets that will be presented in a showroom/market format.
Prerequisites: FD/FM 365 Product Development Principles
FD 381 Fashion Internship
3 credits (CS)
Students participate as interns in a variety of fashion-related
businesses. The internship provides an opportunity to work
off-campus under professional guidance to gain increased
knowledge and career experience in the fashion field.
Seminars accompany the internship to allow for exchange of
information about students’ experiences. The College makes
final arrangements for the placement and provides
transportation when necessary. Prerequisite: Junior level
standing and permission of instructor
FD/FM 382 New York Fashion Tour
2 credits (CS)
Students will tour fashion businesses to observe operations
and production and meet with managers in a range of
positions. Personnel in businesses ranging from small private
enterprises to large, multi-national corporations will share
insights on how they remain profitable in today’s competitive
global business environment. Off-campus tours will include
trips to companies in upstate New York and/or New York
City. Preliminary individual company research and class
seminars will introduce the week’s experience and allow
students to experience a wide variety of fashion-related topics
and career possibilities. Students will write papers and
develop an individualized career plan, based upon the
information obtained from the week’s activities. (Offered
between Fall and Spring terms, students enroll in the course
for the Spring semester.) Prerequisite: Junior level standing or
permission of instructor; fee based course.
FD 393 Internship Preparation
1 credit (CS)
This course provides students with the skills and materials
required to search for and obtain an internship in FD 381
Fashion Internship. This one-credit course focuses on the
professional behaviors of the fashion industry and requires
students to create some of the materials needed for the
internship experience.
FM 398 Fashion Show Management
3 credits (CS)
Students coordinate the logistics for the production of a
fashion show including fundraising, garment juries for
evaluating designs, merchandising, staging, publicity and
advertising, Students will lead student teams to complete all
aspects of the planning and execution of a fashion event.
Prerequisites: Junior standing and selection by instructor
FD 451 Advanced Apparel Design
3 credits (CS)
In this course students undertake advanced work in
patternmaking as it pertains to developing a collection.
Students will use drafting and grading to create slopers for
different size figures. Using those slopers, students will learn
how to fit garments to a person versus a dress form. The
course allows students to strengthen existing skill levels and
take their design abilities to the next level, as well as explore
techniques they want to use in their senior collection.
Students will also learn more about what it takes to create a
collection and consider the different target markets that
might be included in such an endeavor. This course helps to
create a connection between the research and writing in FD
498 and the development of the senior collection to be
completed in FD 499 in the spring. Prerequisites: FD 221
Patternmaking: Flat Pattern and FD 212 Patternmaking:
Draping
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