Fashion and Interiors - Concentration in Fashion Merchandising, B.A.

Program Learning Outcomes

Students who complete the program in Fashion and Interiors - Concentration in Fashion Merchandising will be able to:

1. Identify how fashion or interior design products and services are influenced by physical and social environments as well as technological advancements.
2. Apply knowledge of human development throughout the life cycle to meet specific design needs in the design and marketing of fashion or interior design products and services.
3. Evaluate the effects of society and culture upon fashion or interior design trend development and the merchandising of fashion or interior design products and services.
4. Apply design concepts and available materials and resources for appropriate end use.
5. Collaborate with other pre-professionals to formulate design and merchandising solutions that apply and evaluate knowledge of the fashion or interior design industries.
6. Apply research methods, including forecasting techniques, for marketing fashion or interior design products and services.
7. Analyze theoretical and appropriate practical elements of fashion or interior design products and services in meeting specific design or business needs.
8. Apply professional practices, procedures for business profitability and career success, and the role of ethics in the fashion or interior design industries.
9. Analyze societal diversity considerations for merchandising fashion or interior design products and services.
10. Analyze career paths and appropriate career plans within the fashion or interior design industries.

Lower-Division Requirements

• FCS 101 - Introduction to Family and Consumer Sciences (1)
• FCS 105 - Apparel Construction (2)
• FCS 130 - Fashion Industry (3)
• FCS 150 - Human Development (3)
• FCS 230 - Personal and Consumer Financial Management (2)
• FCS 240 - History of Costume (3)
• ACC 201 - Principles of Financial Accounting (4)
• ART 102 - Fundamentals of Art (GE) (3)
• BUS 212 - Principles of Management (4)
• ECO 102 - Principles of Economics II (GE) (3)
• PHL 211 - Ethics (GE) (3)

Upper-Division Requirements

• FCS 315 - Personal, Family, and Community Health (GE) (3)
• FCS 323 - Fashion Retailing (3)
• FCS 370 - Apparel in Human Behavior and Culture (2)
• FCS 375 - Visual Presentation and Display (2)
• FCS 390 - Fashion Buying (3)
• FCS 400 - Apparel Design (3)
• FCS 405 - Textile Science (3)
• FCS 497 - Family and Consumer Sciences Senior Seminar (2)
• BUS 332 - Principles of Marketing (4)

Recommended Courses

• FCS 480 - Internship in Family and Consumer Sciences (2 or 4)
• ART 115 - Drawing I (3)
• ART 215 - Introduction to Computer Graphics (3)
• ART 203 - Graphic Design I: Visual Symbolism (3)
• BUS 313 - Administrative Communication (4) (3) Units required
• BUS 382 - Entrepreneurship (2)