Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Fashion Design, B.F.A.


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Requirements for a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design


Portfolio Requirement: Students wishing to enter the Fashion Design major must submit a portfolio of original work that will be evaluated before for acceptance into the major. Note: A minimum of 30 credits in Liberal Arts is required.

2.0 Course Requirements in Related Fields: 6 cr


Total Credit Requirement for a Major in Fashion Design: 62 cr


Fashion Design students are strongly encouraged to take additional courses in Art History, particularly ART 366L - History of 20th-Century Art .

* Minimum grade of C required for: FASH 140N FASH 210N FASH 230N FASH 231N FASH 240N FASH 310N FASH 345N FASH 478L FASH 479L FASH 480L  

3.0 Core/Liberal Studies Requirements


3.1 Foundation: 7 cr


3.2 Distribution


Breadth: 21 cr

  • 3 Credit(s)
  • Ethics, Applied Ethics, or Religious Studies 3 Credit(s)
  • Fine Arts 0 Credit(s) (fulfilled by major field req.)
  • History 3 Credit(s)
  • Literature 3 Credit(s)
  • Mathematics 3 Credit(s)
  • Natural Science 3 Credit(s)
  • Social Science 3 Credit(s)
Pathway: 12 cr

Breadth and Pathway courses may overlap, but all students must take a total of 36 distribution credits (including related field requirements). Students majoring in Breadth areas may apply a maximum of 6 credits to their distribution total. If applicable to a Pathway, 3 credits may come from disciplines outside of Core Breadth areas. Although foreign language and culture courses are not required within the Core, some courses in these fields may be used to fulfill distribution requirements. See the Core/LS Program website for a detailed list of all courses that satisfy distribution requirements.

  • Courses addressing an interdisciplinary topic.

Total Core/Liberal Studies Requirement: 40 cr


4.0 Electives: 18 cr


Total Credit Requirement for Graduation: 120 cr


Recommended Program Sequence for a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design


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