This degree offers the skills necessary for jobs in fashion coordinating, promotion, visual presentation, management, merchandising, retail buying, and entrepreneurial opportunities.
This degree prepares students for entry-level jobs in retail merchandising, such as department store buyers, small boutique buyers, visual merchandisers, sales associates, management trainees, product developers and wholesalers. It also prepares students for self-employment or entrepreneurship.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ compare and contrast historical garment design to contemporary dress.
✔ conceive and produce a fashion show.
✔ develop visual displays for a window presentation.
✔ draft a six-month retail buying plan.
✔ assess characteristics of various fibers and how they relate to the finished fabric.
✔ draw a flat working sketch and a fashion illustration.
✔ apply principles of time management, cost control, and decision-making to managerial responsibilities.
✔ develop a business plan for a fashion related business.
✔ create portfolios of fashion, wedding and portrait photographs.
✔ analyze and demonstrate the steps of professional selling, including approach, needs assessment, presentation, overcoming objections and negotiating, closing, and servicing of the sale.
✔ describe how the advertising industry operates and produces advertising through the work of advertisers, agencies, media, and suppliers.
✔ explain how retailers use merchandise management decisions to implement their retail strategy including planning, buying, pricing, branding, and promoting their merchandise.
✔ develop an awareness of image projection and the impact of silent communication.