Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design (TMFD)

Description: Creative experience in designing apparel through the use of draping techniques.

Description: Recent advances in the production and performance of fibers, yarns, finishes and dyes for textile products. Lab experiences designed to familiarize the students with standards, methods and equipment for evaluating textile product performance.

Description: Physical and chemical analysis of textiles using standard testing procedures. The calculation, interpretation, and evaluation of test results.

Description: Theoretical approach to the history of dress from ancient times through the twentieth century; examining dress in the context of social, economic, and artistic development of Western culture.

Description: Textiles in the context of social, technical, political, aesthetic, and economic developments in the cultures of Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between social, technical, and aesthetic qualities of textiles, and their tranformations, as well as stylistic similarities and differences across cultural and historical contexts.

Description: Recommended practices for accessioning, handling, storage, exhibition, and preventative conservation of textiles and dress in museum collections. Philosophical and ethical issues confronting curators and collection managers.

Description: Theories and research findings about the social, cultural, and psychological aspects of clothing and appearance in relation to the self and others. Special emphasis will be placed on relationship(s) between the body, dress, and personal and social identites.

Description: Selected problems related to textiles, fashion, and design

Description: Synthesis of process involved in product development from product initiation to the development of market strategies. Career and portfolio development.

Description: Problems involved in consumer decision making, merchandise development and planning, retail strategies, and marketing practices specific to the textile and apparel industry.

Description: An examination of the American studio craft movement and the precedents and contexts that gave rise to its coalescence in the post World War II era. Individual makers and their works will be studied in relation to the broader domains of fine art and design, and in light of the discourses that held sway as the movement emerged, including feminism, environmentalism, the civil rights movement, counter-cultural forces, etc. The textile and fiber arts will be a particular focus of this exploration, examined through conceptual and critical lenses.

Description: This course will examine issues in aesthetics as related to both historical and nontraditional quilts. Extensive readings in the areas of aesthetics, contemporary art and craft, critical theory and design theory will support analytical and critical writing about selected works from the IQSC collections.

Description: Designing apparel, computer-aided design, pattern making, and line development for specific markets.

Description: Textiles and dress as an expression of the life, arts and material culture of Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. Literature and theoretical approaches.

Description: Influence of social, political, artistic and technological developments on quiltmaking traditions.

Description: Small business start-up, launching products within organizations or setting new growth strategies in a short period of time. Emphasis on knowledge of entrepreneurial management and development strategies and growth in team-work settings.

Description: Comprehensive study of issues involved in global sourcing, including the scope, trends, and sustainability of current practices. An analysis of cultural, political, ethical, and economic perspectives related to global sourcing, production, trade and distribution of textiles and apparel products.

Description: Creative experience in designing textiles and apparel as three-dimensional art forms with emphasis on conceptualization, expression, media, techniques, lighting, space, and movement as influential factors combined with exhibition experience. Topics vary.

Description: Studio experience in working with a variety of media, including digital, to render and produce textiles and/or apparel; and Portfolio development.

Description: Digital and other media for printed textiles. Design development, professional practices, and expressive and communicative concepts.

Description: Application classes of dyes. Physical and chemical properties of dyes within each class, methods of dye-fiber association, fastness properties of dyes, and recommended application procedures.

Description: Fibers, yarns, fabric construction, and finishes as they affect use and care.

Description: Evaluation of psychological, sociological, and cultural theories of consumers' behavior through the examination of factors influencing consumers' decision-making process.

Description: Analysis of leadership and how it affects organizational culture and change trhough a prism of past and current experiences. Various leadership styles will be examined and a personal leadership philosophy will be developed for professional advancement in merchandising.

Description: Examination of intergrated marketing communications (i.e., promotional strategies and techniques) while fostering cultural and global awareness, social responsibility and ethical descitions-making in the field of promotion.

Description: Theoretical and applied analysis of merchandising strategies; assessment of internal and external environmental forces impacting strategic decisions by retail firms; synthesis of past and present trends in order to forecast probable future patterns.

Description: The examination of fiber, textile, and apparel industries in a global context. Specifically, a look at the historical development of the global and U.S. textile and apparel industries and how the global environment (economic, political, and social systems) affects the textile/apparel production and trade.

Description: Gain a comprehensive understanding of the scope, trends, practices and issues in international retail and merchandise management. Comprehend the process of global sourcing and supply chain management. The global retail system and the way goods are distributed to consumers in various countries will also be analyzed.

Description: Utilizing quantitative data from the merchandising industry to support managerial decision making: specifically, how to format and analyze typical consumer data. Applying analytical approaches to problem solving using Microsoft Excel including: Formulas, Functions, Solver, and Pivot Tables. Decision making and analytical skills will be improved while providing new perspectives and approaches to apply quantitative techniques and methods to solve real-world business problems. Learning to summarize and present quantitative information designed for industry stakeholders.

Description: The advanced study of financial trends in the merchandising industries; implications related to sole proprietors, partnerships, franchises, S corporations, and C coporations. Focus will be on the financial implications of recent advances in the field that assist graduate students as they embark on careers in academia and/or the merchandising industries.

Description: Examination of the executive planning process utilized to develop successful corporate strategies; emphasis on the importance of a market orientation for building customer value and sustaining a competitive advantage.

Description: Advanced study of issues and management strategies necessary to design and produce a competitively priced product. Examination of the role of globalization and rapidly changing technology on the development of a successful product.

Description: Significant issues in textiles, clothing, and fashion design.

Description: Significant issues in textiles, clothing, and fashion design.

Description: Significant issues in textiles, clothing, and fashion design.

Description: Significant issues in textiles, clothing, and fashion design.

Description: Advanced work in the creation of apparel as visual communication. Design conceptualization with experimentation in media, structure, technique, and presentation.

Description: Contemporary issues in design with creative and/or curatorial work.

Description: Emergence and synthesis of theory, current theoretical development, conceptual structures, theory construction as a framework for research and evaluation of scholarly publications.

Description: Research methods that addresses practical and theoretical issues involved in designing, conducting, and evaluating research.

Description: Research methods for material culture study applied to textiles and dress. Methodologies for artifact study and skills. Fiber microscopy as a tool for artifact analysis. Conceptual development, application and evaluation of a model for artifact study.

Description: In depth analysis of the relationship between material culture and gender roles, categories, and performances. Engages with theoretical frameworks for material culture and gender, as well as topics such as the body, clothing, the built environment, technology and media.

Description: Introduction to the theory, principles, and practices of sustainability. Examination of environmental, social, and economic sustainability at both the global and apparel and textile industry levels. Exploration of innovative practices and social change strategies for the furtherance of sustainability.

Description: Opportunity to analyze and evaluate techniques, develop skills, or study topics of special interest.

Description: Workshops on a variety of topics by department faculty and visiting artists, scholars and scientists. Opportunity to analyze and evaluate techniques, develop skills, or study topics of special interest.

Description: Workshops on a variety of topics by department faculty and visiting artists, scholars and scientists. Opportunity to analyze and evaluate techniques, develop skills, or study topics of special interest.

Description: Workshops on a variety of topics by department faculty and visiting artists, scholars and scientists. Opportunity to analyze and evaluate techniques, develop skills, or study topics of special interest.

Description: Aspects of human sciences not covered elsewhere in the curriculum.

Description: The textile and apparel industry. Visits to museums, showrooms, manufacturers, retail establishments in major domestic and/or foreign markets such as: New York City, Paris, London, Milan, Prague, Shanghai, Seoul.

Description: The apparel, accessories and soft goods marketplaces and manufacturing throughout the U.S. provide excellent arenas for learning. Short domestic study tours including but not limited to such centers of soft good commerce as Las Vegas, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Chicago, Dallas/Ft. Worth and other regional locations.

Description: Individual projects in research, literature review, or creative production.

Description: Individual projects in research, literature review, or creative production.

Description: Individual projects in research, literature review, or creative production.

Description: Individual projects in research, literature review, or creative production.

Description: Individualized per Masters Thesis

Description: Reading, discussions, and reports dealing with the economic, sociological, historical, technical, and aesthetic phases of textiles and clothing.

Description: Advanced Problems: Textiles

Description: Advanced Problems: Fashion

Description: Advanced Problems: Design

Description: Current status of the domestic textile and apparel complex; current theories of textile consumption and demand within the international market; factors influencing textile and apparel production, distribution, and expenditures; the role of international trade and its influence on the domestic textile and apparel industry and foreign policy.

Description: Appearance and space as systems of nonverbal communication with emphasis on their relationship to the development of the self and the micro and macro processes of life.

Description: Common theoretical frameworks found in the textile/apparel/interior merchandising and marketing literature, plus issues which impact the textiles and apparel industry.

Description: Supervised classroom experiences designed to develop competencies in teaching at the college level.

Description: Intended primarily for doctoral students, although non-doctoral graduate students may be admitted with permission. Immersion in outcome-based scholarly activities with a faculty mentor. Develop, execute and report on one or more projects addressing the interaction between research and practice, individually or in small groups.

Description: Supervised independent professional experience under direction of a practicing professional within the textile and apparel industry, government agencies, museums and/or businesses.

Description: Individualized per Doctoral Dissertation.