Fashion Design Degree

AIU offers a professionally-focused fashion design degree through our BFA in Fashion Design and Marketing program with a specialization in Fashion Design at our Atlanta campus. The fashion design program offers the opportunity to develop an in-depth understanding of clothing design and construction from concept to creation including a knowledge of textile science, fabric selection, ornamentation, and fashion trends.

Fashion Design Program Outline

The AIU Fashion Design degree program combines the required General Education courses that can provide a liberal arts foundation with specialized coursework designed to provide a professional education in the diverse and creative field of fashion design. The Fashion Design program emphasizes creativity and provides specialized training in sketching, garment construction, pattern-making, draping, computer-aided design illustration, and portfolio development.

Learn How To:

Demonstrate how to apply the skills and tools of fashion to design and marketing projects creatively and confidently
Create original fashion designs either by hand or with computer-aided design software, which demonstrate creativity with design elements
Demonstrate knowledge of contemporary fashion, and key theoretical issues relevant to fashion, and at the forefront of the discipline
Analyze fashion trends, consumer needs, and preferences that are used to forecast, plan, develop, and promote clothing lines
Critically evaluate and articulate your understanding of your own and others’ work, and be able to devise and sustain a reasoned argument in relation to contemporary fashion

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Fashion Design Courses

Degree Requirements

Courses

General Education

Credits

ENGL106	English Composition I	4.5
ENGL107	English Composition II	4.5
FASH212	Historical & Contextual Studies	4.5
HUMA215	Topics in Cultural Studies	4.5
MATH125	General College Mathematics	4.5
SCIE208	Cells, Clones, Clots and Cocaine: The Secrets of Life Science	4.5
SCIE210	Environmental Science	4.5
SSCI206	Aspects of Psychology	4.5
SSCI210	Sociology	4.5
UNIV103	Academic and Professional Success	4.5
UNIV106	Technology and Information Literacy	4.5
UNIV109	Interpersonal Communication	4.5
	General Education Electives (1)	4.5
	Total Credit Hours:	58.5

General Electives

Credits

	General Elective	4.5
	Internship/General Elective	4.5
	Total Credit Hours:	9

Lower Division Core

Credits

FASH201	Design Process	4.5
FASH202	Drawing and Design Principles	4.5
FASH206	Marketing for Fashion	4.5
FASH209	The Fashion Cycle	4.5
FASH221	Fashion Portfolio I	4.5
FASH227	Sewing Techniques	4.5
	Total Credit Hours:	27

Upper Division Core

Credits

FASH300	Creative Drape	4.5
FASH301	Fashion Trends	4.5
FASH303	Womenswear I	4.5
FASH311	3D Form III	4.5
FASH340	Computer Applications for Fashion	4.5
FASH343	Textiles	4.5
FASH403	Final Fashion Portfolio	4.5
	Total Credit Hours:	31.5

Fashion Design

Credits

FASH205	3D Form I	4.5
FASH207	3D Form II	4.5
FASH208	Promoting Fashion	4.5
	or
FASH214	Targeting Customers	4.5
FASH305	Womenswear II	4.5
FASH315	Fashion Accessories	4.5
FASH350	Fashion Portfolio II	4.5
FASH401	Collection Project	4.5
FASH405	Fashion Menswear	4.5
FASH312	CAD for Fashion Marketing	4.5
	or
FASH412	CAD for Fashion II	4.5
FASH410	Fashion Collection I	4.5
FASH420	Fashion Collection II	4.5
FASH430	Fashion Collection III	4.5
	Total Credit Hours:	54

Total Credit Hours : 180

Fashion Design Classes Overview

In this specialized fashion design degree curriculum, study the fashion industry and how consumer needs and characteristics affect areas such as production, management, sourcing, marketing, and merchandising. The fashion design major's objective is to learn what it takes to be a creative, design-focused, fashion marketing professional, with a basic knowledge of fashion design and construction. Coursework is structured to help you acquire focused knowledge and skillsets common in the field of fashion marketing. For example:

Fashion Accessories: Explore the accessories marketplace and the relationship between this and the fashion garment industry.

Fashion Trends: Explore how to identify, track and analyze trends in the areas of business and fashion with respect to design, merchandise and assortment planning.

Collection Project: Our Fashion Design degree program curriculum provides an opportunity to identify your individual vision and design philosophy, which you carry through to a collection/final project.

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