| Advanced Fashion Design & Merchandising
COURSE TITLE: Advanced Fashion Design & Merchandising
LENGTH OF COURSE: One Year
TYPE OF CREDIT: Vocational (10 Credits)
GRADE LEVEL: 11 - 12
PREREQUISITES: Fashion Design and Merchandising
TEXT BOOK:
The World of Fashion Merchandising
Mary Wolfe, Goodheart-Willcox, 1998
ISBN# 1-56637-452-9
REFERENCE MATERIALS:
Apparel and Accessories
Mathisen, Gregg/McGraw-Hill, 1979
ISBN# 0-07-040905-6
Who's Who in Fashion
Stegemeyer and Fairchild, Fairchild Publishing, 1996
ISBN# 1-56365-040-2
Illustrating Fashion Concept to Creation
Stipelman and Fairchild, Fairchild Publishing, 1974
ISBN# 1-56367-080-1
Internet
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed to provide further study and practice to effectively prepare students with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors needed to successfully enter the job market, or to transition to postsecondary education at a community college, private, technical or trade school, and/or four-year college and university.
Students will further reinforce skills in the following content areas: principles and elements of design; design and manufacturing; buying and sales; and promotion as they relate to the business of fashion. Additional units of instruction can be used in personal application and the fashion business: retail organization; wardrobe selection; textiles; history of fashion; and job employability.
A minimum of 16 hours of on-the-job training at local retail businesses is highly recommended for this level. Students receive a proficiency certificate for completion of this course which can be used in gaining employment. Students will be prepared for entry-level positions of employment.
Fashion Design Industry Awareness
Students will understand the breadth of the fashion design, manufacturing, and merchandising industry, including career opportunities and the role of this industry in state and local economies.
Professional Standards / Dignity of Work
Students will understand what constitutes professional behavior, image, and standards.
Workforce and Organizational Management
Students will understand workforce and organizational management, including the roles and responsibilities of management and employees.
Operational Procedures & Safety Practice
Students will understand operational procedures and safety practices commonly performed in the fashion design, manufacturing, and merchandising industry.
Fashion Design Laws & Regulations
Students will understand the laws and regulations that affect providers of services in the fashion design, manufacturing, and merchandising industry and their clients.
Design Elements and Principles
Students will understand the elements and principles of design.
History of Fashion
Students will understand the historical aspects and trends of fashion and their relationship to changing economic, social, and cultural conditions.
Fashion Forecasting
Students will understand merchandising and forecasting as used in the fashion design, manufacturing, and merchandising industry.
Textiles and Textile Products
Students will understand the characteristics and maintenance of textiles and textile products.
Garment Construction in Manufacturing
Students will understand garment construction skills used in a variety of occupations within the fashion manufacturing and merchandising industry.
Product Knowledge & Apparel Merchandise
Students will understand the merchandising of apparel products.
Sales and Service
Students will understand the skills and procedures necessary to help retail clients in making decisions and purchases.
Visual Merchandising
Students will understand the procedures necessary to produce and maintain interior and exterior store displays.
Inventory Control & Loss Prevention
Students will understand the current laws and work site policies and procedures regarding inventory control and loss prevention.
Developing and Merchandising a Line
Students will understand the procedures commonly performed to develop and merchandise a line.
Textile Design
Students will understand the skills and procedures necessary to create and produce textile designs.
Garment Alteration and Repair
Students will understand acceptable garment fit, alteration, and repair.
Care and Cleaning of Apparel
Students will understand care and cleaning of apparel.
Communication Skills
Students will understand how personal, interpersonal, and communication skills influence employability.
Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills
Students will exhibit critical and creative thinking, logical reasoning, and problem-solving skills.
Balancing Responsibilities
Students will understand management strategies needed to achieve balance in work, personal, and family life.
Teamwork and Leadership
Students will understand the teamwork and leadership concepts and skills needed to succeed in work, personal, family, and community life.
Artistic Perception
Processing, Analyzing, and Responding to Sensory Information: Through the Language and Skills Unique to the Visual Arts Students perceive and respond to works of art, objects in nature, events, and the environment. They use the vocabulary of the visual arts to express their observations
Creative Expression
Creating, Performing and Participating in the Visual Arts: Students apply artistic processes and skills, using a variety of media to communicate meaning and intent in original artworks.
Historical and Cultural Context
Understanding the Visual Arts in Relation to History and Culture: Students analyze the role and development of the visual arts in past and present cultures throughout the world, noting human diversity as it relates to visual arts and artists.
Aesthetic Valuing
Responding to, Analyzing, and Making Judgments About Works in the Visual Arts: Students analyze, assess, and derive meaning from works of art, including their own, according to the elements of art, principles of design, and aesthetic qualities.
Connections, Relationship, Applications
Students will understand acceptable garment fit, alteration, and repair.
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