BFA IN APPAREL DESIGN
2023-2024 | Curriculum | 4-year program
During sophomore year, students begin exploring apparel and bodily ornamentation as a means of identity projection/expression. Studios offer both a conceptual lens through which majors investigate individual and social identity, and core design and construction skills, including interdisciplinary approaches to making.
Through self-expression and visual communication, juniors learn to center their creative voices within their design process and its outcomes. Along the way they focus on knitwear, making both by hand and with knitting machines, to experiment three-dimensionally and explore the unique properties of knit fabrics.
FOUNDATION YEAR | ||||||||
FALL | WINTERSESSION | SPRING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
15 | 3 | 15 | ||||||
SOPHOMORE | ||||||||
FALL | WINTERSESSION | SPRING | ||||||
Intro to Apparel Studio | 6 | Elective | 3 | Sophomore Apparel Studio | 6 | |||
Sophomore: Identity/Identities I (Fall) | 3 | Sophomore: Identity/Identities II (Spring) | 3 | |||||
Histories of Dress* | 3 | Liberal Arts | 6 | |||||
Total CREDITS | 12 | Total CREDITS | 3 | Total CREDITS | 15 | |||
JUNIOR | ||||||||
FALL | WINTERSESSION | SPRING | ||||||
Junior Machine Knitwear | 3 | Elective | 3 | Junior Tailoring Studio | 6 | |||
Junior Cut & Sew | 3 | Junior: Design II (Spring) | 3 | |||||
Junior: Design I (Fall) | 3 | Liberal Arts | 6 | |||||
Liberal Arts | 6 | |||||||
Total CREDITS | 15 | Total CREDITS | 3 | Total CREDITS | 15 | |||
SENIOR | ||||||||
FALL | WINTERSESSION | SPRING | ||||||
Senior Collection Development | 6 | Elective | 3 | Senior Apparel Collection | 6 | |||
Senior Thesis: Design Identity (Fall) | 3 | Senior Thesis: Design Identity (Spring) | 3 | |||||
Liberal Arts | 6 | Liberal Arts | 3 | |||||
Total CREDITS | 15 | Total CREDITS | 3 | Total CREDITS | 12 | |||
Total Credits: 126 | ||||||||
Notes:
*Apparel Design majors receive art history credit for course: Histories of Dress.