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Apparel Design blends a flair for way with practical knowledge of all aspects of the business concern. Students who have a talent for cartoon and creating clothes, for themselves or others, can apply their creativity in classes designed to aggrandize their knowledge of the applied side of the multibillion-dollar mode industry. MTSU, with the only dress pattern plan at a country academy in Tennessee, boasts ane of the relatively few such programs in the Southeast and ane of the best.

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MTSU alum finishes runner-upwardly on Project Track

Ayana Ife got a big career heave after finishing in second place on season xvi of the Lifetime Network's fashion reality program "Project Runway." The 27-twelvemonth-old Salt Lake Urban center, Utah resident was able to impress judges with her modest yet edgy designs that have universal entreatment for women of all walks of life. She was the commencement Muslim designer to brand it to the finale, mark a stiff cultural shift in the industry. Her final collection, titled "Evolution," was intended to relate her personal journey, featuring shimmering tops and slacks, also as long gowns, caput coverings and a cream-colored wedding gown with aureate accents and a matchinghijab and veil. Ife graduated magna cum laude with a available's degree in Textiles, Merchandising and Design and focus on Clothes Design in May 2015. Photo: Lifetime.

MTSU becomes National Retail Federation member

MTSU is now a member of the National Retail Federation (NRF), which gives our Textiles, Merchandising, and Design students a wealth of resource, special experiences, events and scholarship opportunities. There's as well a Student Ambassador program that will give i student the opportunity to act as the main liaison between the NRF Foundation and MTSU to help promote NRF programs and retail as a promising and exciting career. The pupil ambassador is selected each fall semester through an application process with the TXMD program. Contact Lauren Rudd at Lauren.Rudd@mtsu.edu for more information.  

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The major in Textiles, Merchandising, and Blueprint with a concentration in Dress Pattern leads to entry-level career opportunities in fashion-related industries, such as design, pattern-making, and manufacturing. Examples include

• Consultant (way and bridal)
• Fashion Designer
• Style Forecaster
• Fit Specialist
• Patternmaker
• Personal Stylist
• Product Developer
• Sourcing Agent
• Technical Designer

Employers of MTSU alumni include

• Abercrombie
• Ambrosia & Co. Showroom
• American Dress
• America's Mart Atlanta
• American Contour Mag
• Arts Cubed
• Assistant Republic
• BCBG Max Aria
• Beall'south, inc.
• Belk, Inc.
• Bella Boutique
• Bliss Abode
• Chroma Bazaar
• Boswell's Music City Harley-Davidson
• Bridal Warehouse
• Buckle
• Burberry
• Mannerly Charlie
• Ceri Hoover Bags
• Cracker Barrel
• David'due south Bridal
• Dillard'south
• Dollar Full general
• DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse
• e-Allen Bazaar
• Effortless Style
• Emmaline Boutique
• Limited
• Forever 21
• Francesca's Collections
• French'due south Shoes and Boots
• Fruit of the Loom
• Gap
• Genesco
• Goodwill Industries
• Groupon
• H&M
• Hancock Fabrics
• Harmon Group
• Haute Hippie
• Haymaker's
• Hollister Co.
• Icing
• J. Michael Clothiers
• JCPenney
• Johnston and Murphy
• Juicy Couture
• Julianna Ross
• KDH Defence force System
• Kiaser-Roth Corporation
• Legacy ink
• Lifeway
• Local Honey
• Los Angeles Opera
• LuLa Roe
• MAC Cosmetics
• Macy's
• Madewell
• Manuel
• Manufacture New York
• Megan Prange's Blueprint & Clothes Production
• Michael's
• Nordstrom'south
• O'More Higher of Pattern (faculty)
• Oklahoma Land University (kinesthesia)
• Ola Mai
• Penny's Closet
• Perfect Pair
• Pur Minerals
• Redpepper
• Shopping from the Heart
• Simplicity Creative Group
• Vocalizer Viking Pfaff Worldwide
• Talbots
• Tatyana Bazaar
• Textile Fabric Consultants, Inc.
• TOOTSIES
• The White Room
• Trendy Pieces
• Trinity Image Consulting
• TSC
• Two Quondam Hippies
• Under Armour
• U.S. Patent and Trademarks Office
• VF Corporation
• VF Imagewear
• Vy La and Co.
• West Elm
• Wolfchase Galleria
• Yelo Mag
• Zoo Atlanta
• Zulily

Undergraduates in the Fabric, Merchandising, and Design major program may pursue a Available of Scientific discipline (B.South.) degree in one of two concentrations: Apparel Design or Fashion Merchandising.

Those selecting the Apparel Design concentration may choose from the following minors: Fine art, Amusement Arts Blueprint, Entrepreneurship, Mass Advice, Spanish and French.

For complete curriculum details, click on the REQUIREMENTS button to the right.

Other majors in the Department of Human Sciences leading to a B.S. are Family and Consumer Studies with a concentration in Child Evolution and Family Studies; Interior Design; and Nutrition and Food Scientific discipline, which also has a concentration in Dietetics. Undergraduate minors include Nutrition and Food Sciences; Textiles, Merchandise, and Design; and Homo Sciences.

Textiles, Merchandising, and Design, Apparel Design Concentration, B.S.

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The major in Textiles, Merchandising, and Pattern (TXMD) leads to entry-level career opportunities in fashion-related industries and requires the selection of one concentration from the two available: Dress Blueprint and Fashion Merchandising. Textiles, Merchandising, and Design majors and minors must earn a grade of C (two.0) or higher in all TXMD courses. Students earning a D or F will exist required to repeat the form before existence immune to advance in the program.

The Textiles, Merchandising, and Blueprint program consists of four academic years. Students enter the programme every bit Textiles, Merchandising, and Blueprint majors or minors and must complete the outset 30 credit hours of the Textiles, Merchandising, and Design curriculum consisting of General Education courses and Textiles, Merchandising, and Design pre-admission required courses. Students then apply for admission to the Textiles, Merchandising, and Design professional sequence of courses. When a student applies for admission, is accepted, and becomes enrolled, he/she is so classified as a TXMD major or minor admitted to the program and can and so progress in required TXMD professional sequence courses.

The number of students accustomed into the TXMD program is express, making the awarding process competitive.

Textiles, Merchandising, and Design students enrolled in the University and pursuing the showtime two semesters of the curriculum should maintain a minimum 2.50 cumulative weighted form betoken average and are required to earn no less than a C (2.00) in any prerequisite course.

A concentration in Apparel Design allows the student to fix for entry-level positions in the growing area of design, pattern making, and manufacturing. In addition to the major and concentration, a minor in Art, Entertainment Arts Blueprint, Entrepreneurship, French, Mass Communication (whatsoever area of Media and Entertainment study), or Spanish is required.

Access and Progression

Access into the Professional Course Sequence (Candidacy)

1. Any student formally admitted to the University may pursue the Textiles, Merchandising, and Design (TXMD) curriculum.
2. Applicants are guaranteed admission to the Apparel Design Concentration of the Textiles, Merchandising, and Design Program provided they

• have a minimum ACT score of 23 (or Saturday equivalent);
• have a cumulative undergraduate higher GPA of iii.0; and
• have completed each of the following courses with a grade of C (2.00) or ameliorate:
  • General Education ENGL 1010, ENGL 1020 - 6 credit hours
  • General Education Natural Sciences - 8 credit hours
  • General Educational activity Math - 3 credit hours
  • Full general Education Fine art 1030 - iii credit hours
  • TXMD 1110, TXMD 1170 - 6 credit hours
  • HSC 1010 (Career Orientation)- 1 credit hr
  • Other (from required professional support or general education courses) - 3 credit hours

Depending on space and available resources, additional students may be admitted on a competitive basis. Admission will exist based on ACT/SAT score (25% weight) and cumulative undergraduate GPA (75% weight) and completion of all prerequisite courses with grade of C (ii.00) or improve.

Note: Students with less than a two.50 cumulative GPA are non eligible for admission to the sequence of professional person courses.

Professional Form Sequence

1. An awarding form must exist submitted to the Textiles, Merchandising, and Design programme during the semester prior to outset the Professional person Course Sequence.
2. Transcript validation of all prerequisite courses must exist on file in the MTSU Records Function.
3. A cumulative undergraduate weighted college grade betoken average of ii.fifty is required for eligibility in the TXMD programme.
4. Applicants must have no grade less than a C (2.00) in whatsoever pre-admission required courses earlier entering the Professional Course Sequence.
5. Scores from a standardized examination (ACT/Sabbatum) forth with the college class point average will be used to rank candidates for progression to the Professional Course Sequence.
6. Students must attain a minimum grade of C (2.00) in all Textiles, Merchandising, and Pattern courses.
7. Students may repeat a form merely once to earn a minimum grade of C (2.00).
8. Students may repeat a maximum of ii class (major or prerequisite).
9. Failure of more than than two TXMD courses will outcome in dismissal from the plan. A failing course is divers as receiving a course of less than C (2.00).
10. Students will be dismissed from the Textiles, Merchandising, and Blueprint major if they
    1. commit a breach of ethics or gross professional negligence,
    2. fail to progress due to unsuccessful attainment of requirements. Students who neglect to progress volition be readmitted on a infinite-available basis. But one readmission for failure to progress will be allowed.
    3. For transfer students who are admitted into the TXMD program, a grade of D/F from another school counts as the start "failing" attempt and the next incidence of D/F, in any TXMD course at MTSU, counts equally the 2nd incident, thus resulting in dismissal from the program. (Meet particular vii above.)
11. If a educatee receives a D or F in a Textiles, Merchandising, and Design course at MTSU, he/she must repeat that form at MTSU.
12. Readmission to the plan for any returning TXMD major who left the University in practiced standing will be granted on a space-available basis.
13. Textiles, Merchandising, and Design students are expected to seek advising each semester to ensure that they are post-obit the proper sequence for completion of the prerequisite courses.
14. Further specific details regarding admission and progression are available from the coordinator of the Textiles, Merchandising, and Design program.

Academic Map

Following is a printable, suggested iv-year schedule of courses:

Textiles, Merchandising, and Blueprint, Apparel Design, B.S., Bookish Map

Caste Requirements

General Pedagogy	41 hours
Major Requirements	45 hours
Professional person Pedagogy	11 hours
Auxiliary Course	3 hours*
Minor	15-eighteen hours
Electives	ii-8 hours
Total	120 hours

*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the General Education curriculum. If programme requirements are also used to fulfill General Teaching requirements, the number of elective hours will increment.

General Education (41 hours)

General Teaching requirements include courses in Advice, History, Humanities and/or Fine Arts, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social/Behavioral Sciences categories.

The post-obit class required by the see General Education requirements:

• ART 1030 (Hum/FA)

Major Requirements (45 hours)

• TXMD 1110 - Bones Design

  iii credit hours

  Studio course that applies the elements and principles of design, aesthetics, and problem solving within the framework of apparel pattern and fashion merchandising. Bones introductory sewing techniques included to apply design fundamentals to fabric. Meets 5 hours per calendar week.

• TXMD 1170 - Introduction to the Style Manufacture

  3 credit hours

  How the fashion world operates from planning stages to consumer. Emphasis on product and distribution of fashion goods, current trends, and technological developments.

• TXMD 2110 - Fashion Forecasting

  iii credit hours

  Prerequisites: TXMD 2180 and TXMD 2181 with C or ameliorate. Explores forecasting frameworks and theories for explaining fashion dynamics. Application of forecasting techniques to project future change.

• TXMD 2180 - Textiles I

  3 credit hours

  Corequisite: TXMD 2181. An overview of the textile industry including fibers, yarns, fabric construction, dyeing/printing techniques, and finishes. Emphasis placed on the selection of textile products in relation to terminate utilize. Includes labwork involving physical testing. Lecture meets two hours per calendar week; lab meets 2 hours per calendar week.

• TXMD 2181 - Textiles I Laboratory

  0 credit hours

  Corequisite: TXMD 2180.

• TXMD 2200 - History of Fashion

  3 credit hours

  Prerequisite: TXMD 2180. Survey of habiliment and design from ancient to mod periods; consideration given to social, economical, and cultural atmospheric condition reflected in dress. Offered once a year.

• TXMD 4100 - Way Promotion

  3 credit hours

  Prerequisite: TXMD 4170 or TXMD 4320 with C or better; senior standing (xc credit hours). An overview of the sales promotion process in relation to the manner industry; emphasis on advertizement, visual merchandising, special events, and style show production. Offered once per twelvemonth.

• TXMD 4220 - Computer-Aided Clothes Design I

  3 credit hours

  Uses project-based learning with computer-aided pattern software applicable to the apparel and fabric industries to develop and utilize visual communication graphics advisable for merchandising and blueprint applications. Five hours per week. Offered once a year.

• TXMD 3200 - Wearable I

  3 credit hours

  Central clothing structure processes necessary for advanced work in clothing, including sewing auto operation. Garment construction from a commercial blueprint and quality standards. Meets 5 hours per week. Offered once a yr.

• TXMD 3300 - Article of clothing Ii

  3 credit hours

  Prerequisite: TXMD 3200 with C or better. Advanced fashion problems with an emphasis on fitting and finishing. A series of half-scale sample exercise projects and total-scale garments volition exist completed. Meets v hours per week. Offered in one case a year.

• TXMD 3120 - Textiles Two

  3 credit hours

  Prerequisites: TXMD 2110, TXMD 2200, TXMD 2180/TXMD 2181 (all with C or amend). Studio course including research and give-and-take of contempo developments in the textile manufacture regarding surface design techniques, material testing, and industry economics (including sustainability issues). Piece of work will be completed focusing on gimmicky cloth industry problems related to raw materials, sourcing, distribution, retailing, and consumption. Five contact hours per week.

• TXMD 3220 - Patternmaking I

  3 credit hours

  Prerequisite: TXMD 3300 with C or better. Adaptation of commercial sloper patterns to individual proportions, pattern designing and awarding of principles of design to clothes designing. Five contact hours per week. Offered in one case a yr.

• TXMD 3320 - Patternmaking Two

  3 credit hours

  Prerequisite:  TXMD 3220 with C or better. Avant-garde apparel design techniques including patterning, draping, drafting, grading, and mark development via transmission and computerized techniques. V contact hours per week. Offered once a yr.

• TXMD 3370 - Manner Illustration I

  three credit hours

  Prerequisites: TXMD 2180/TXMD 2181 with C or ameliorate. An overview of fashion illustration techniques allowing skill development of the fashion croquis and garments using various media techniques to communicate fashion ideas, moods, and details. Meets five hours per week. Offered once a yr.

• TXMD 4320 - Computer Aided Clothes Blueprint Ii

  3 credit hours

  Prerequisite: TXMD 4220 with C or better. Develops avant-garde skills using industry advisable CAD software in a project-based learning environment. Students investigate career options and use visual communications and graphics appropriate for portfolio planning, community interest, and industry related enquiry and awarding. V contact hours per week. Offered once a yr.

• TXMD 4400 - Way Production Development

  iii credit hours

  Prerequisites: TXMD 3320 or TXMD 4220 with C or better; senior standing (90 credit hours). Senior capstone course that requires application of skills and knowledge gained in the major coursework in a realistic industry context. Create an original product line in a team environs; pattern, construct, market and trade product line suitable to enter into a juried pattern competition and/or sell through a retail outlet. Meets five hours per calendar week. Offered once a yr.

Professional Instruction (11 hours)

• CDFS 3320 - Family Relations

  3 credit hours

  Family systems, giving consideration to interpersonal relationships. The structure, function, and evolution of families in a changing lodge and in relation to other social institutions.

• HSC 1010 - Career Orientation

  1 credit 60 minutes

  Development and scope of Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences equally a profession; its wide diverseness of career opportunities with analysis of interests, aptitudes, proficiency, and education related to success in these areas.

• HSC 4000 - Senior Seminar

  i credit hour

  Prerequisites: HSC 1010 or  NFS 1010 with C or better and senior standing. Examines Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences professions from a global perspective. Identifies skills for success in developing and managing a career. Includes resume and cover letters, leadership, networking, life/work planning, and ethics and professionalism in Human Sciences fields.

• HSC 4410 - Consumer Economics

  3 credit hours

  Study of the economic organisation and factors influencing consumer decisions and the marketplace; identifies social, economic, and political forces shaping consumer demands; and analyzes the influence of customs, trends, peer groups, and advertizement.

• NFS 1240 - Principles of Diet

  three credit hours

  Fundamentals of normal nutrition and its relationship to health and physical fitness with emphasis on the scientific, psychological, sociological, and economical aspects of diet. (Credit not allowed for Nutrition and Food Sciences major.)

Auxiliary Course (3 hours)

• Fine art 1030 - Art Appreciation  three credit hours

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  Fine art 1030 - Art Appreciation

  iii credit hours

  An introduction to art structure and styles of art; relationships between by ideas and electric current trends. TBR Common Course: ART 1035

Pocket-size (15-18 hours)

Minor may be selected from any of the post-obit: Fine art - 18 hours; Entertainment Arts Design - 15 hours; Entrepreneurship - 15 hours; French - 18 hours; Mass Advice (whatever area of Media and Amusement report) - 18 hours; or Castilian - 18 hours.

Electives (2-8 hours)

Curriculum: Textiles, Merchandising, and Design, Dress Design

Curricular listings include General Instruction requirements in Communication, History, Humanities and/or Fine Arts, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social/Behavioral Sciences categories.

Freshman Fall

• TXMD 1110 - Basic Pattern

  3 credit hours

  Studio form that applies the elements and principles of pattern, aesthetics, and problem solving within the framework of apparel blueprint and fashion merchandising. Basic introductory sewing techniques included to apply design fundamentals to material. Meets 5 hours per week.

• TXMD 1170 - Introduction to the Fashion Industry

  3 credit hours

  How the fashion world operates from planning stages to consumer. Emphasis on production and distribution of fashion goods, current trends, and technological developments.

• ENGL 1010 - Expository Writing

  3 credit hours

  The first General Didactics English course. Emphasis on learning to adjust composing processes to a variety of expository and analytic writing assignments. Minimum grade of C- required to encounter degree requirements.

• HSC 1010 - Career Orientation

  ane credit hour

  Development and scope of Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences as a profession; its broad multifariousness of career opportunities with analysis of interests, aptitudes, proficiency, and didactics related to success in these areas.

• Natural Sciences 4 credit hours

• Mathematics three credit hours

Subtotal: 14 Hours

Freshman Spring

• ENGL 1020 - Research and Argumentative Writing

  three credit hours

  Prerequisite: ENGL 1010. The second General Education English course. Emphasis on analytic and argumentative writing and on locating, organizing, and using library resource materials in the writing. Minimum grade of C- required to meet degree requirements.

• Humanities/Fine Arts (ART 1030 recommended) 3 credit hours
• Natural Sciences 4 credit hours

• TXMD 1110 - Basic Design

  three credit hours

  Studio grade that applies the elements and principles of design, aesthetics, and problem solving within the framework of apparel design and mode merchandising. Basic introductory sewing techniques included to use design fundamentals to cloth. Meets five hours per week.

• TXMD 1170 - Introduction to the Fashion Manufacture

  three credit hours

  How the manner world operates from planning stages to consumer. Emphasis on production and distribution of fashion goods, current trends, and technological developments.

• TXMD 2180 - Textiles I

  3 credit hours

  Corequisite: TXMD 2181. An overview of the cloth manufacture including fibers, yarns, fabric construction, dyeing/printing techniques, and finishes. Accent placed on the pick of material products in relation to end utilise. Includes labwork involving physical testing. Lecture meets two hours per week; lab meets two hours per week.

• TXMD 2181 - Textiles I Laboratory

  0 credit hours

  Corequisite: TXMD 2180.

Subtotal: xvi Hours

Sophomore Fall

• COMM 2200 - Fundamentals of Communication

  three credit hours

  Introduces principles and processes of effective public oral communication including researching, critical thinking, organizing, presenting, listening, and using appropriate linguistic communication. Counts as part of the Full general Education Communication requirement. TBR Mutual Class: COMM 2025

• TXMD 3200 - Clothing I

  3 credit hours

  Central article of clothing construction processes necessary for advanced work in article of clothing, including sewing machine operation. Garment construction from a commercial pattern and quality standards. Meets five hours per week. Offered in one case a year.

• Humanities and/or Fine Arts 3 credit hours
• Social/Behavioral Sciences 3 credit hours
• Minor* 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 15 Hours

Sophomore Jump

• TXMD 3300 - Clothing II

  three credit hours

  Prerequisite: TXMD 3200 with C or amend. Avant-garde way issues with an emphasis on fitting and finishing. A series of half-calibration sample exercise projects and full-scale garments volition be completed. Meets v hours per week. Offered once a year.

• TXMD 2200 - History of Mode

  3 credit hours

  Prerequisite: TXMD 2180. Survey of clothing and pattern from ancient to modern periods; consideration given to social, economic, and cultural conditions reflected in dress. Offered in one case a year.

• ENGL 2020 - Themes in Literature and Culture

  3 credit hours

  Prerequisites: ENGL 1010 and ENGL 1020. Traces a specific theme or idea through a number of literary texts that reflect dissimilar historical and cultural contexts. Field of study will vary.

• ENGL 2030 - The Feel of Literature

  3 credit hours

  Prerequisites: ENGL 1010 and ENGL 1020. The reading of a diversity of literary types which illuminate themes and experiences common to human being.

• HUM 2610 - World Literatures

  three credit hours

  Prerequisites: ENGL 1010 and ENGL 1020. Representative works of French, German, and Hispanic authors in English translation. No foreign-language proficiency required. Carries General Education credit.

• TXMD 3370 - Mode Analogy I

  iii credit hours

  Prerequisites: TXMD 2180/TXMD 2181 with C or better. An overview of way illustration techniques allowing skill development of the fashion croquis and garments using various media techniques to communicate manner ideas, moods, and details. Meets v hours per week. Offered once a year.

• HIST 2010 - Survey of United States History I

  3 credit hours

  Survey of the political, economic, social, cultural, and diplomatic phases of American life in its regional, national, and international aspects. Discusses the era from the beginning to 1877. May be used to satisfy 1 office of the Full general Educational activity History requirement. HIST 2010 is NOT a prerequisite for HIST 2020. TBR Common Course: HIST 2010

• HIST 2020 - Survey of United States History 2

  3 credit hours

  Survey of the political, economical, social, cultural, and diplomatic phases of American life in its regional, national, and international aspects. Discusses the era from 1877 to the present. May be used to satisfy ane part of the the General Teaching History requirement. HIST 2010 is Not a prerequisite for HIST 2020. TBR Common Course: HIST 2020

• HIST 2030 - Tennessee History

  iii credit hours

  The part of the state in the development of the nation. May be used to satisfy i part of the General Education History requirement. TBR Common Course: HIST 2030

• HIST 2040 - Survey African American History I

  3 credit hours

  (Aforementioned as AST 2040.) The role of African Americans in establishing and shaping the American nation. Covers their historical evolution and contributions to American art, music, literature, and organized religion. May be used to satisfy ane part of the General Educational activity History requirement.

• HIST 2050 - Survey African American History 2

  three credit hours

  (Same as AST 2050.) The role of African Americans in shaping the American nation and creating a twentieth-century racial identity. Covers their historical development and examines their contributions to American art, music, literature, and religion. May be used to satisfy 1 office of the Full general Pedagogy History requirement.

Subtotal: 15 Hours

Junior Autumn

• HIST 2010 - Survey of United States History I

  3 credit hours

  Survey of the political, economical, social, cultural, and diplomatic phases of American life in its regional, national, and international aspects. Discusses the era from the beginning to 1877. May be used to satisfy one part of the General Didactics History requirement. HIST 2010 is NOT a prerequisite for HIST 2020. TBR Common Course: HIST 2010

• HIST 2020 - Survey of U.s.a. History 2

  3 credit hours

  Survey of the political, economic, social, cultural, and diplomatic phases of American life in its regional, national, and international aspects. Discusses the era from 1877 to the present. May be used to satisfy one part of the the General Instruction History requirement. HIST 2010 is Not a prerequisite for HIST 2020. TBR Common Course: HIST 2020

• HIST 2030 - Tennessee History

  3 credit hours

  The role of the state in the development of the nation. May be used to satisfy one office of the General Instruction History requirement. TBR Common Course: HIST 2030

• HIST 2040 - Survey African American History I

  3 credit hours

  (Same as AST 2040.) The role of African Americans in establishing and shaping the American nation. Covers their historical development and contributions to American art, music, literature, and religion. May be used to satisfy 1 part of the General Education History requirement.

• HIST 2050 - Survey African American History II

  3 credit hours

  (Same as AST 2050.) The role of African Americans in shaping the American nation and creating a twentieth-century racial identity. Covers their historical development and examines their contributions to American art, music, literature, and religion. May exist used to satisfy i part of the Full general Education History requirement.

• TXMD 3120 - Textiles II

  iii credit hours

  Prerequisites: TXMD 2110, TXMD 2200, TXMD 2180/TXMD 2181 (all with C or improve). Studio form including research and word of contempo developments in the textile industry regarding surface design techniques, material testing, and manufacture economics (including sustainability issues). Piece of work volition be completed focusing on contemporary textile industry problems related to raw materials, sourcing, distribution, retailing, and consumption. Five contact hours per week.

• TXMD 3220 - Patternmaking I

  3 credit hours

  Prerequisite: TXMD 3300 with C or better. Adaptation of commercial sloper patterns to private proportions, blueprint designing and application of principles of design to apparel designing. Five contact hours per week. Offered once a year.

• TXMD 4220 - Computer-Aided Clothes Design I

  3 credit hours

  Uses projection-based learning with calculator-aided design software applicable to the apparel and textile industries to develop and use visual communication graphics advisable for merchandising and design applications. Five hours per week. Offered once a yr.

• Small-scale* iii credit hours

Subtotal: 15 Hours

Junior Spring

• TXMD 3320 - Patternmaking II

  three credit hours

  Prerequisite:  TXMD 3220 with C or amend. Advanced apparel design techniques including patterning, draping, drafting, grading, and marking development via manual and computerized techniques. Five contact hours per week. Offered once a year.

• Pocket-sized* 6 credit hours
• Social/Behavioral Sciences 3 credit hours

• TXMD 2110 - Mode Forecasting

  3 credit hours

  Prerequisites: TXMD 2180 and TXMD 2181 with C or better. Explores forecasting frameworks and theories for explaining mode dynamics. Application of forecasting techniques to project future change.

Subtotal: xv Hours

Senior Fall

• HSC 4000 - Senior Seminar

  i credit hour

  Prerequisites: HSC 1010 or  NFS 1010 with C or better and senior continuing. Examines Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences professions from a global perspective. Identifies skills for success in developing and managing a career. Includes resume and cover letters, leadership, networking, life/work planning, and ethics and professionalism in Human Sciences fields.

• NFS 1240 - Principles of Nutrition

  3 credit hours

  Fundamentals of normal nutrition and its relationship to health and physical fettle with accent on the scientific, psychological, sociological, and economic aspects of nutrition. (Credit non allowed for Diet and Food Sciences major.)

• TXMD 4320 - Computer Aided Apparel Design 2

  3 credit hours

  Prerequisite: TXMD 4220 with C or better. Develops avant-garde skills using industry appropriate CAD software in a project-based learning environment. Students investigate career options and employ visual communications and graphics appropriate for portfolio planning, customs interest, and manufacture related research and awarding. Five contact hours per week. Offered once a twelvemonth.

• CDFS 3320 - Family Relations

  3 credit hours

  Family unit systems, giving consideration to interpersonal relationships. The structure, function, and development of families in a changing society and in relation to other social institutions.

• Modest* 3 credit hours

• Constituent three credit hours

Subtotal: 16 Hours

Senior Bound

• HSC 4410 - Consumer Economics

  3 credit hours

  Written report of the economical system and factors influencing consumer decisions and the marketplace; identifies social, economic, and political forces shaping consumer demands; and analyzes the influence of customs, trends, peer groups, and advertizement.

• TXMD 4100 - Fashion Promotion

  3 credit hours

  Prerequisite: TXMD 4170 or TXMD 4320 with C or amend; senior standing (90 credit hours). An overview of the sales promotion process in relation to the way industry; emphasis on advertising, visual merchandising, special events, and way show product. Offered once per yr.

• TXMD 4400 - Fashion Product Development

  iii credit hours

  Prerequisites: TXMD 3320 or TXMD 4220 with C or better; senior standing (90 credit hours). Senior capstone course that requires application of skills and knowledge gained in the major coursework in a realistic industry context. Create an original product line in a team environs; design, construct, market and merchandise product line suitable to enter into a juried pattern competition and/or sell through a retail outlet. Meets five hours per week. Offered once a yr.

• Minor/elective* 3 credit hours
• Elective 2 credit hours

Subtotal: 14 Hours

Our adjunct faculty bring outstanding professional experience to our programs. Many are industry leaders with busy careers and honors. Importantly, they are innovative educators who offering hands-on learning to our students to fix them to enter and thrive in a dynamic, and oftentimes emerging, industry and professional earth. They inspire, instruct, and challenge our students toward academic and professional success.

Textiles, Merchandising, and Design

TXMD 1110 - Basic Blueprint
iii credit hours

Studio course that applies the elements and principles of pattern, aesthetics, and problem solving within the framework of apparel design and manner merchandising. Basic introductory sewing techniques included to apply blueprint fundamentals to fabric. Meets five hours per week.

TXMD 1170 - Introduction to the Fashion Industry
3 credit hours

How the way world operates from planning stages to consumer. Emphasis on production and distribution of style goods, electric current trends, and technological developments.

TXMD 2110 - Manner Forecasting
3 credit hours

Prerequisites: TXMD 2180 and TXMD 2181 with C or improve. Explores forecasting frameworks and theories for explaining fashion dynamics. Application of forecasting techniques to projection future change.

TXMD 2180 - Textiles I
three credit hours

Corequisite: TXMD 2181. An overview of the textile industry including fibers, yarns, material construction, dyeing/press techniques, and finishes. Emphasis placed on the selection of textile products in relation to end utilise. Includes labwork involving concrete testing. Lecture meets two hours per calendar week; lab meets two hours per week.

TXMD 2181 - Textiles I Laboratory
0 credit hours

Corequisite: TXMD 2180.

TXMD 2200 - History of Way
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: TXMD 2180. Survey of wear and blueprint from ancient to mod periods; consideration given to social, economic, and cultural conditions reflected in dress. Offered once a year.

TXMD 3120 - Textiles 2
3 credit hours

Prerequisites: TXMD 2110, TXMD 2200, TXMD 2180/TXMD 2181 (all with C or better). Studio course including research and discussion of recent developments in the fabric manufacture regarding surface blueprint techniques, fabric testing, and industry economics (including sustainability issues). Piece of work will exist completed focusing on gimmicky textile industry bug related to raw materials, sourcing, distribution, retailing, and consumption. 5 contact hours per week.

TXMD 3150 - Apparel Pick and Evaluation
3 credit hours

Prerequisites: TXMD 2180/TXMD 2181 with C or better. An overview of the wearing apparel industry structure and the functions of each division. Emphasis on recognizing quality in relation to fabrication, construction, and design of garments. No structure involved. Offered once a year.

TXMD 3170 - Fashion Branding
3 credit hours

Prerequisites: TXMD 2180/TXMD 2181 with C or meliorate. Principles underlying the manner procedure and the study of manner branding. Special emphasis on the broadcasting of fashion throughout the earth marketplace and to the fashion designers and business organization leaders in the fashion world today. Offered in one case a yr.

TXMD 3200 - Clothing I
three credit hours

Fundamental clothing structure processes necessary for advanced work in wear, including sewing machine operation. Garment construction from a commercial pattern and quality standards. Meets five hours per week. Offered once a twelvemonth.

TXMD 3220 - Patternmaking I
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: TXMD 3300 with C or meliorate. Adaptation of commercial sloper patterns to individual proportions, pattern designing and awarding of principles of design to apparel designing. Five contact hours per calendar week. Offered once a yr.

TXMD 3300 - Clothing II
iii credit hours

Prerequisite: TXMD 3200 with C or better. Advanced fashion problems with an emphasis on fitting and finishing. A series of half-scale sample exercise projects and full-scale garments volition exist completed. Meets five hours per week. Offered once a twelvemonth.

TXMD 3320 - Patternmaking Two
3 credit hours

Prerequisite:  TXMD 3220 with C or improve. Advanced wearing apparel design techniques including patterning, draping, drafting, grading, and marker evolution via manual and computerized techniques. Five contact hours per week. Offered once a year.

TXMD 3370 - Way Illustration I
three credit hours

Prerequisites: TXMD 2180/TXMD 2181 with C or amend. An overview of fashion illustration techniques allowing skill evolution of the fashion croquis and garments using diverse media techniques to communicate fashion ideas, moods, and details. Meets v hours per week. Offered once a year.

TXMD 4100 - Fashion Promotion
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: TXMD 4170 or TXMD 4320 with C or better; senior standing (90 credit hours). An overview of the sales promotion process in relation to the fashion industry; emphasis on advert, visual merchandising, special events, and mode show production. Offered once per year.

TXMD 4140 - Apparel Manufacturing and Sourcing
3 credit hours

Prerequisites: TXMD 2180/TXMD 2181 with C or meliorate. Overview of textiles/apparel industry processes from raw cloth to consumption for apparel and other consumer products. Examines production and marketing of products, technological developments, domestic and global market strategies, and environmental practices via field trips. Offered in one case a year.

TXMD 4150 - Style Ownership
3 credit hours

Prerequisites: TXMD 3170, ACTG 2110 or ACTG 3000 (all with C or better), senior standing (ninety credit hours). Principles of marketing, retailing, and sales equally they apply to the merchandising of fashion goods. Special emphasis on fashion buying, planning, control, and computer applications for clothes businesses. Offered in one case a year.

TXMD 4170 - Social Aspects of Wearable
three credit hours

Prerequisites: Senior standing (ninety credit hours) and completion of Soc/Beh Sci General Education requirements.The interaction of sociological, psychological, economic, and cultural implications of wearable and textiles. Offered one time a twelvemonth.

TXMD 4220 - Computer-Aided Apparel Design I
three credit hours

Uses project-based learning with computer-aided blueprint software applicable to the apparel and textile industries to develop and use visual communication graphics appropriate for merchandising and design applications. Five hours per week. Offered one time a year.

TXMD 4320 - Computer Aided Apparel Blueprint Two
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: TXMD 4220 with C or better. Develops avant-garde skills using industry appropriate CAD software in a project-based learning environment. Students investigate career options and employ visual communications and graphics appropriate for portfolio planning, community involvement, and industry related inquiry and application. Five contact hours per calendar week. Offered once a twelvemonth.

TXMD 4370 - Style Illustration 2
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: TXMD 3370 with C or meliorate. Further exploration of the color rendering, markers, colored graphics, and computer graphics to develop compositions depicting garment silhouette, textiles, details, and mood. Five contact hours per week. Offered every other year.

TXMD 4400 - Style Product Development
iii credit hours

Prerequisites: TXMD 3320 or TXMD 4220 with C or improve; senior standing (90 credit hours). Senior capstone grade that requires application of skills and noesis gained in the major coursework in a realistic industry context. Create an original product line in a squad environs; design, construct, market and merchandise product line suitable to enter into a juried design competition and/or sell through a retail outlet. Meets 5 hours per week. Offered once a year.

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