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6.00 Credits
Students participate as interns in a variety of fashion-related businesses. The internship provides an opportunity to work off-campus under professional guidance to gain increased knowledge and career experience in the fashion field. Seminars accompany the internship to allow for exchange of information about students' experiences. The College makes final arrangements for the placement and provides transportation when necessary. Required Prerequisite: Junior level standing in Fashion Design or Fashion Merchandising and permission of instructor.
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2.00 Credits
Students will tour fashion businesses to observe operations and production and meet with managers in a range of positions. Personnel in businesses ranging from small private enterprises to large, multi-national corporations will share insights on how they remain profitable in today's competitive global business environment. Off-campus tours will include trips to companies in upstate New York and/or New York City. Preliminary individual company research and class seminars will introduce the week's experience and allow students to experience a wide variety of fashion-related topics and career possibilities. Students will write papers and develop an individualized career plan, based upon the information obtained from the week's activities. (Offered January term) Prerequisite: Sophomorelevel standing in Fashion Design or Fashion Merchandising or permission of instructor. Fee based course.
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3.00 Credits
Students are exposed to the process of portfolio development, as required for the fashion industry. They will document their mastery of the knowledge and technical skills gained as fashion students through illustrations, photographs, and digital images and other material. They will develop the components of their portfolio along with the knowledge and skills necessary to begin a professional job search, including resumes and other business documents, cover letters, interviews, and networking. A variety of sources used to locate jobs in the fashion industry will be investigated along with discussions of career paths open to graduates with fashion degrees. Prerequisite: FD 498 Senior Collection 1: Research and Planning or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course is the first of a two-class sequence that constitutes the Senior Capstone experience that is an academic requirement for all students at Cazenovia College. The research paper and design line planning will allow the student to reflect upon the experiences gained in their academic career, demonstrate their mastery of the skills and knowledge they have acquired as fashion students while preparing for their future profession. The focus of the class will be on the research methods and process required for the development of a capstone research paper and project. The research process will include a study of research methods, concept proposal and definition, and a final written documented research paper. Research will also be required for reflective and analytic papers, trend reporting/forecasting, color story, story board and sketches which are part of the process of creating a line of garments.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a continuation of the Senior Collection 1 course, in which students will create patterns, first samples, story boards; and conduct fittings and construct final garments for their senior collections. They will also plan and present the showing of their lines as part of the annual student fashion show. During this course each student will complete a fashion collection of garments and presentation pieces that ties his or her academic experiences to their future endeavors and related conceptually to their research papers. During the last three weeks of the term, each student will present an oral defense of both their written and creative work, discussing the relationship between these two aspects of their Senior Collection to a specially selected committee. Prerequisite: FD 498 Senior Collection 1: Research and Planning.
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3.00 Credits
This survey course is designed to acquaint students with textile properties, products and production processes of fiber, yarn, fabric, color applications and finishes. Production methods, end-use performance and aesthetics of textile materials will be stressed in terms of their importance in fashion applications, including fashion merchandising and design of apparel and related soft goods. Lectures, laboratory exercises and student projects further the student's understanding of fabric as the foundation of the fashion industry.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of how the fashion business works from initial concept through distribution to the retail sector. Students will be introduced to various careers within the fashion industry as they explore the creative, technical and economic aspects of product development. The ever-changing dynamics of this industry will be emphasized by studying how demographics, technology and global economics continually influence the apparel industry.
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3.00 Credits
In this class students will explore the theoretical and practical functions and roles of merchandising in fashion-related manufacturing and retail businesses. Specific focus will be on the planning, development and presentation of product lines in retail stores. Students will study the principles, procedures and techniques practiced by merchandisers of fashion goods in determining buying assortments, resource selection and product pricing and promotion. Prerequisite: FD/FM 240 Fashion Business.
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3.00 Credits
In this class students investigate the various aspects of promoting fashion through individual research, class discussion and team-based projects. Through the study of various formats and related activities and processes, the student gains the creative knowledge and experience necessary to plan and produce a successful fashion promotion event. Individual and class projects stimulate the student's creative ability to choose a basic theme, organize the participants and activities, and convey the theme throughout an entire production. The focus of the class is a group project that is organized and completed by student-led teams, and culminates with the annual student fashion show.
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3.00 Credits
Students will be introduced to the application of computers in the fashion design process. AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator and Fashion Studio are software options that will be used to create fashion sketches, technical drawings, pattern manipulation, surface pattern designs and completed projects that simulate computer applications in the fashion industry. Final garments will be sewn from the designs created.
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