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Learning Goals / Outcomes

Two overarching program goals provide the Apparel Design and Fashion Merchandising programs with unique strengths.Graduates of both programs willl attain the following learning goals.

  1. International Fashion Business:  Comprehend the importance of the global market and trade and forces that affect trading in global and domestic economies. 
    General Education Goals #1-10
  1. Social Responsibility and Sustainability:  Demonstrate knowledge of social responsibility and sustainability issues affecting the fashion industry.
    General Education Goals # 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 9

Additionally, graduates of the Apparel Design and Fashion Merchandising programs will attain the following learning goals.

  1. Aesthetics and Design: Integrate concepts of aesthetics and underlying factors of elements and principles to shape successful design of apparel products; apply aesthetics and design thinking to develop strategies resolving apparel industry problems.
    General Education Goals # 2 and 8
  1. Consumers and Markets: Demonstrate understanding of the impact of consumers’ demographic, geographic, psychographic and behavioral characteristics on marketing and merchandising fashion products in domestic and global markets.
    General Education Goals #2, 4, 5, 8, and 9
  1. Fashion Industry Knowledge: Demonstrate an understanding of the multifaceted and dynamic nature of fashion and the retail fashion industry.
    General Education Goals #1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10
  1. Fashion, Style & Culture: Recognize the influence of historic and cultural dress on contemporary fashion.
    General Education Goals #1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10
  1. Product Development: Demonstrate an understanding of the product development process by utilizing marketing concepts, product life-cycle, and target markets characteristics in conceptualizing plans for a product.
    General Education Goals #2, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 10
  1. Product Knowledge, Promotion, and Presentation: Illustrate the ability to use knowledge of textiles and apparel products to select, evaluate, promote, and communicate product ideas and information.
    General Education Goals # 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9
  1. Fashion Retailing: Understand the operations and develop strategies for the "final business" in the distribution channel that links manufacturers to consumers.
  1. Supply Chain Management: Analyze and evaluate various components in the apparel supply chain. General Education Goals # 1-10


In addition to these 10 program goals that form the core of both majors, the Fashion Merchandising and Apparel Design majors each have additional learning goals that are specific to those majors.

Graduates of the Fashion Merchandising program will attain the following learning
goals.

FM1.  Fashion Branding and Business Strategies: Analyze, evaluate, and create fashion branding and business strategies.
General Education Goals # 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, and 10

FM2.  Merchandise and Assortment Planning: Demonstrate an ability to apply qualitative and quantitative analytical skills to illustrate merchandising, planning, and buying.

FM3.  Sourcing and Buying:  Apply supply chain knowledge in sourcing and scouring decisions.
General Education Goals # 1, 2, and 3



Graduates of the Apparel Design program will attain the following learning goals.

  • Design
  • Forecasting
  • Illustration
  • Patternmaking
  • Assembly and fit

    • Our Curriculum Map shows how individual courses address both the core goal learning goals for the Fashion Merchandising and Apparel Design majors, and the specific learning goals for each major. 

    Course Syllabi

    By clicking on the courses below, you can review excerpts from sample course syllabi that show how the program goals are addressed in our required courses.