Fashion

Description

With strong industry connections, excellent facilities and a world-class program of study, ASU's fashion concentration is one of the best in the nation.

The concentration in fashion offers grounding in the history, social context and economics of the contemporary fashion industry. Students also have the option of pursuing more focused classes designed to introduce them to a variety of roles in this important industry: fashion history, fashion industry business practices, and fashion production. Opportunities for study abroad could further advance students' professional goals.

Taught by well-known fashion industry professionals, students enrolled in the concentration in fashion at ASU develop connections to leaders in the field.

Program Requirements

• Students must complete a minimum of 19 credit hours, including 9 upper-division credit hours for this concentration.
• This program includes four credit of required core courses and 15 credits of theme area courses, with nine hours being upper division.

• All courses must be completed with a grade of “C” (2.00) or higher.

   

   

  Required Introductory Courses (4 credit hours)
  FSH 200: Textiles Science Lab (1)
  FSH 201: Textiles Science (3)

   

  
  Fashion Theme Area Courses (15 credit hours, including 9 upper division hours)
  Students complete 15 credit hours (nine must be upper division) selecting  courses across the theme areas below. Students may wish to determine which upper-division (300/400-level) courses they are interested in to ensure needed lower-division (100/200-level) prerequisite courses are taken.

   

   

  Apparel Technical Design Theme
  FSH 158: Fundamentals of Technical Flat Sketching
  FSH 258: Technical Design I
  FSH 358: Technical Design II
  FSH 155: Product Development Fundamentals
  FSH 256: Digital Patternmaking and Fit Analysis I
  FSH 356: Digital Patternmaking and Fit Analysis II
   

  Fashion Apparel Design Theme
  FSH 122: Apparel Construction I
  FSH 203: Fashion Illustration I
  FSH 205: Fundamentals of Fashion Design or FSH 206: Fashion Design I
  FSH 208: Fashion Technology I
  FSH 222: Apparel Construction II
  FSH 224: Accessories Design
  FSH 303: Fashion Illustration II
  FSH 306: Fashion Design II
  FSH 308: Fashion Technology II
  FSH 342: Materials and Techniques
  FSH 344: Fashion Design and Wearable Technology
  FSH 323: Draping for Fashion Design
  FSH 394: Sustainable Design Studio

   

  
  Fashion Business and Merchandising Theme
  FSH 175: Merchandising Essentials
  FSH 194: Consumer Attitudes & Behaviors
  FSH 275: Merchandising Applications
  FSH 294: Trend Forecasting
  FSH 300: Global Fashion Industry (GCSI)
  FSH 325: Personal Style and Wardrobe (HUAD)
  FSH 326: Fashion Styling
  FSH 375: Fashion Branding Strategies
  FSH 380: Fashion Forecasting
  FSH 385: Fashion Visual Merchandising
  FSH 394: Merchandising Practice
  FSH 394: AI in Fashion
  FSH 394: Fashion Case Studies
  FSH 475: Communication Strategies for Fashion
  FSH 480: Fashion Retail Development

   

   

  Fashion Culture, Criticism and Curation Theme
  ARS 394: 20th Century American & European Jewelry Design
  FSH 204: Social Aspects of Fashion (SOBE)
  FSH 304: Equity and Inclusion in Fashion
  FSH / ARS 331: 18th- and 19th-Century European Jewelry Design
  FSH 335: Fashion and Dress in Visual Culture
  FSH 360: Sustainable Systems in Fashion
  FSH 435: Contemporary Fashion (HUAD)
  THE 430: History of Fashion I (HUAD)
  THE 431: History of Fashion II: 20th-Century Fashion
   

  FSH Elective  6

   

  Upper Division FSH Elective   9
  
  Prerequisite courses may be needed in order to complete the requirements of this concentration.