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<noframes><head> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../templates/cai.css" type="text/css"> </head> <base target="parent"> <table width="550" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10"> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center"><b> <span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC0000; text-transform: uppercase"> CREATIVE Fashion Design LABORATORY CERTIFICATE Course Descriptions</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">For a fast retrieval of a course description, use Ctrl + F (PC) or Command + F (Mac) and enter the course number.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center"><b> <span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666">EXTRA COURSES</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666">FDSN 0100</span></b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666"> FASHION ART AND DESIGN LABORATORY <br> This no-credit class is open to all students who need additional help in drawing and rendering. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666">FDSN 0120</span></b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666"> DESIGN STUDIO LABORATORY <br> This no-credit class is open to all students who need additional help in fashion design. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666">GNST 4101</span></b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666"> STUDY TOUR IN EUROPE <br> An optional course. The President of ACA will invite students to see the world of fashion through a visit to important industry and cultural events in Europe. The ability to judge significant factors of fashion and to analyze potential trends is developed. Students take field trips to major fashion houses, trade shows, and similar function. Special invitations to opera performances, art galleries, and museum exhibitions broaden creativity. The preparation of reports develops critical judgment. Prominent member of the fashion world lecture and give presentations as part of the course. Students will also turn in a research paper on a selected topic.<br> <b>3 UNITS</b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666">GNST 4102</span></b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666"> STUDY TOUR IN ASIA<br> An optional course. The CAO of ACA will invite students to see the world of fashion through a visit to important industry and cultural events in Asia. The ability to judge significant factors of fashion and to analyze potential trends is developed. Students take field trips to major fashion houses, trade shows, and similar function. Special invitations to opera performances, art galleries, and museum exhibitions broaden creativity. The preparation of reports develops critical judgment. Prominent member of the fashion world lecture and give presentations as part of the course. Students will also turn in a research paper on a selected topic.<br> <b>3 UNITS</b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center"><b> <span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">QUARTER 1</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">FDSN 3111</span></b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900"> TRENDS & PREVISION I </span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666"><br> A course that prepares students to predict upcoming fashion trends by developing cognitive and visual skills under the supervision of a professional designer. Student emphasis on focusing on the objective, developing a strategy, determining design criteria, doing research, and crating a concept. This course will examine each of these steps in detail, encouraging students to develop their own concepts. <br> <b>3 UNITS:</b> 3 HOURS LECTURE/LAB PER WEEK </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">FDSN 3121 </span></b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">CREATIVE FASHION DESIGN COLLECTION I </span> <span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666"><br> Students learn the importance of how a balanced collection is developed through meetings and discussions with experienced designers. Students utilize the resources and research techniques necessary to keep apace with changing fashion trends, and to differentiate the levels of fashion, ranging from Junior lines to the Haute Couture level of collections. <br> <b>3 UNITS:</b> 3 HOURS LECTURE/LAB PER WEEK </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">FDSN 4211</span></b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900"> CREATIVE DIGITAL DESIGN I </span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666"><br> This course is designed to develop cognitive, creative and problem-solving skills in relation to design development. Emphasis on understanding and evaluating information, developing research skills, and creating a symbolic language for concept-based design solutions. <br> <b>3 UNITS:</b> 3 HOURS LECTURE/LAB PER WEEK </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">GNST 2600</span></b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900"> GENERAL ECONOMICS</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"><font color="#CC9900"> </font> </span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#666666"> A survey of basic microeconomic principles and problems. Students study the concepts of markets, supply and demand, GNP, inflation, monetary policy, and types of economic systems. <br> <b>3 UNITS:</b> 3 HOURS LECTURE PER WEEK </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center"><b> <span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">QUARTER 2</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">FDSN 3112</span></b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900"> TRENDS & PREVISION II </span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666"><br> A course designed to help students develop creative and prediction skills domestically and internationally. In conjunction with events throughout the world, this course emphasizes the movement of social, political, and cultural aspects of art and entertainment. Field trips and guest speakers. <br> <b>3 UNITS:</b> 3 HOURS LECTURE/LAB PER WEEK </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">FDSN 3122</span></b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900"> CREATIVE FASHION DESIGN COLLECTION II </span> <span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666"><br> An advanced course that develops student strategies, research skills, conceptual and design criteria techniques required to create their own fashion collection. Fashion sketches are presented: design groupings, design detail, silhouette, fabrication and color. This course is a prerequisite for the Gallery Fashion Show class. <br> <b>3 UNITS:</b> 3 HOURS LECTURE/LAB PER WEEK </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">FDSN 4212</span></b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900"> CREATIVE DIGITAL DESIGN II </span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666"><br> An advanced course that explores the use of digital design tools for developing sophisticated imagery for visual communication. Assignments develop mastery of existing professional design solutions and demonstration of an understanding of typographic, layout and design nuances; then students design and execute original projects. <br> <b>3 UNITS:</b> 3 HOURS LECTURE/LAB PER WEEK </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">TDSN 3201 </span></b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">TEXTILE ENGINEERING I</span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666"><br> Students will further their understanding of fabric and printing techniques in order to produce fabric from their original artwork. Students will also be taught various advanced surface treatments on cloth, including burn-out and dying. <br> <b>3 UNITS:</b> 3 HOURS LECTURE/LAB PER WEEK </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center"><b> <span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">QUARTER 3</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">TDSN 3202</span></b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900"> TEXTILE ENGINEERING II </span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666"> Student will further build on their technical skills and broaden their knowledge of printing. Concentration on the compatibility of fabrics to match performance guidelines and their marketability. <br> <b>3 UNITS:</b> 3 HOURS LECTURE/LAB PER WEEK </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">TDSN 2020</span></b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900"> EMBELLISHMENT </span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666"><br> Application of design principles to the embellishment of garments and accessories, with emphasis on techniques, creation of original designs, and fashion trends. Embellishment includes embroidery, silks screening, crystal and nail head, appliqué, etc. Techniques are developed through hands-on experimentation, as well as finishes and hand-printing or computer processing. <br> <b>3 UNITS:</b> 3 HOURS LECTURE/LAB PER WEEK </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">FDSN 3240</span></b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900"> FASHION ACCESSORIES </span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666"><br> A course that emphasizes the importance of accessorizing to fashion by incorporating beauty through the creation of buttons, buckles, corsages, broches, and more. <br> <b>3 UNITS:</b> 3 HOURS LECTURE/LAB PER WEEK </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">MKTG 4100</span></b><font color="#CC9900"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt"> CLOTHING AND SOCIETY </span></font> <span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#CC0000"> </span><font color="#666666"><span style="font-size:7.0pt">Prerequisite: FDSN 3112 <br> An advanced social science course that examines the development of dress, adornment, and appearance as a nonverbal mode of communication and explores the meaning of clothing in our global fashion market place. </span><b><span style="font-size:7.0pt">3 UNITS:</span></b><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> 3 HOURS LECTURE PER WEEK </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center"><b> <span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">QUARTER 4</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">FDSN 3140</span></b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900"> GALLERY FASHION SHOW PORTFOLIO </span> <span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666"><br> Each student develops a collection in an individualized area of apparel specialization. A representative group of samples from the collection is completed through individual study under the guidance of an experienced design instructor. Students will also learn the digital skills applicable to their final portfolio. A four-week internship in the industry accompanies this course. <br> <b>1 UNITS:</b> 1 HOURS LECTURE/LAB PER WEEK </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">MNFG 3220</span></b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900"> INTERMEDIATE MANUFACTURING </span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666"><br> An intermediate course that explores the world of apparel manufacturing, including production, sourcing, control, planning, costing, resources, allocation and feasibility. Projects including following a product from concept to production and delivery of the product to the retailer. <br> <b>3 UNITS:</b> 3 HOURS LECTURE/LAB PER WEEK </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">FDSN 3230</span></b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900"> GALLERY FASHION SHOW PREPARATION</span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #666666"><br> Students learn the importance of how a balanced collection is developed through meetings, discussions, and modification with pattern designer and professional model. Each student will develop a portfolio collection in an individualized area of apparel specialization. Students will learn application of digital skills to portfolio development. <br> <b>5 UNITS:</b> 5 HOURS LECTURE/LAB PER WEEK </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #CC9900">MNGT 4300</span></b><font color="#CC9900"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt"> SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT </span></font> <span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#CC0000"> </span><font color="#666666"><span style="font-size:7.0pt">Prerequisite: GNST 2510 This course is designed for students who ultimately are going to open and run their own businesses, with an emphasis on the fashion industry. The course will take the student from the basics of choosing a legal business form, through accounting for Management, Financial Planning, Basics of Income Tax, Investment Management and Wealth Building, Branding and Trademarks, Marketing and Sales, and a wealth of information on the process of developing effective business habits that lead to success. We will examine the entire process of Motivation, Discipline, Time Management, Goal Setting, Proven Success Strategies, and other like subjects. </span><b><span style="font-size:7.0pt">3 UNITS:</span></b><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> 3 HOURS LECTURE PER WEEK</span></font></p> </td> </tr> </table> </noframes>
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