FALL 2009 COURSES

This course is an introduction to the fashion industry, providing an overview of how the fashion business works, from raw materials to the production and retail distribution of fashion goods. The areas of fashion design, production, methods of predicting consumer demand, buying, pricing, retailing, and promoting fashion products are analyzed. (CSU)

This course is a survey of costume from ancient times to present day. The course uses an interdisciplinary approach to show how clothing is used as a universal means of symbolizing roles and social position, emphasizing the ways clothing communicates values and attitudes, and how costume is a reflection of trends in technology, music, literature, art, interior design and social values. (CSU)

FASHION 024 Visual Merchandising /Store Design I
This course is designed to acquaint the student with the basic techniques of effective visual merchandising and retail store design, including history, terminology, types, components, and the structure of visual merchandising products, departments and retail stores. Course activities include designing, constructing and installing visual displays and designing fashion-related retail store environments. (CSU)

Prerequisites: FASHION-002 Introduction to the Fashion Industry and FASHION-022 Fashion Promotion and Marketing each with a grade of "C" or better.

This course is an overview of fashion event production, including market research, audience identification, visual merchandising, direct marketing, sponsorship, press releases, electronic media, publicity and advertising, and the primary purpose---merchandising the product through special events used in the fashion industry. Event production from start to finish; planning through presentation to wrap-up and evaluation will be covered as well. Students will gain direct "hands-on" experience in the design, development, direction and co-ordination of all aspects required to produce a fashion production. Students must be concurrently enrolled in the Fashion Event Production Lab in order to complete this course. (CSU)

Prerequisites: FASHION-028A Fashion Event Production with a grade of "C" or better.

This course is the lab component to Fashion 28A, Fashion Event Production. The student will gain direct "hands-on" experience in the design, development, direction and co-ordination of all aspects required to produce fashion productions and events. This lab course may be taken a total of 3 times for a maximum of 3 units.(CSU)

This course is designed to acquaint the student with the selection and use of sewing equipment, fabric and patterns, interpretation and use of commercial patterns, minor pattern adjustments, and professional construction techniques. Students learn industry sewing techniques on commercial sewing machines and sergers. Careers in apparel construction within the fashion industry are discussed. (CSU, CAN FCS 10)

Code	Days & Times	Units	Location	Room	Instructor
26545	F 9:00am-2:00pm ** This section is full but wail list is still open	3.0	Stockton	SHIM 308	Kuwamoto, J
91302	TTh 12:00-2:30 pm ** This section is full with a full wait list	3.0	Stockton	SHIM 308	Sanford, S
73885	MW 12:30pm-3:00pm ** This section is full but wait list is still open	3.0	Stockton	SHIM 308	Kuwamoto, J

FASHION 031 Intermediate Industry Sewing

Prerequisites: FASHION-030 Basic Industry Sewing each with a grade of "C" or better and

Code

Days & Times

Units

Location

Room

Instructor

57018

TTh 11:00 am - 12:00 pm (lecture)

TTh 1:00-2:30pm (lab)

** This section is full but wait list is still open

3.0

Stockton

SHIMA 308

Sanford, S

FASHION 051 Beginning Fashion Illustration

Prerequisite Skills: Ability to read a ruler.

This course is designed to develop graphic skills necessary for the student planning a fashion design career. Emphasis is placed on developing basic techniques for proportioned croqius and rendering the figure, fashion styles and fabrics in pencil and color, as well as the method of drawing flats used in fashion design. (CSU)

Code

Days & Times

Units

Location

Room

Instructor

25847

TTh 12:30pm-2:00pm

*This section is full with a full wait list

3.0

Stockton

SHIMA 306

Asfour, L

FASHION 052Advanced Fashion Illustration

Prerequisite: Completion of Fashion 51 with a grade of C or better.

Code

Days & Times

Units

Location

Room

Instructor

25847

TTh 1:30pm-3:00pm

*This section is full with a full wait list

3.0

Stockton

SHIMA 306

Asfour, L

FASHION 054: COLLECTION DESIGN AND PRODUCTION I I

Prerequisites: FASHION-030 Basic Industry Sewing and FASHION-031 Intermediate Industry Sewing and FASHION-036 Flat Pattern Techniques and FASHION-051 Beginning Fashion Illustration each with a grade of "C" or better.

This course is designed to provide students with the skills to produce a grouping of original apparel garments that would be showcased in an apparel collection. Students apply the skills obtained in previous design and pattern making classes by creating a collection of original garments aimed at a specific target market. Topics include designing a small collection, creating and modifying patterns, constructing original garments, and identifying target consumer markets. Finished collections are showcased on the runway in a fashion show. (CSU)

Code	Days & Times	Units	Location	Room	Instructor
74219	FRIDAY 9:00 am - 2:00 pm	3.0	Stockton	SHIMA 306	TBA

FCS 048B Fashion Apparel

Prerequisites: FCS 48A or FASHION 036.

This course is a study of the development of patterns into slopers for the designing and styling of slacks, jumpsuits, culottes, and dresses

Code	Days & Times	Units	Location	Room	Instructor
90138	F 12:00-5:00 pm	3.0	Stockton	SHIMA 306	TBA