项目介绍

2022年9月29日

Apparel Design provides a unique approach to graduate study through its focus on conducting independent research in aspects of apparel design including fashion theory, functional apparel, sizing and anthropometrics, cultural and historic aspects of dress and textile design, apparel industry issues, CAD and other technologies, etc. We help you craft your graduate research program based on your interests and goals to address significant issues of apparel design within the context of aesthetics, production, function, and the meanings of dress.

Diverse, engaged faculty

The apparel design faculty has research- and industry-based expertise from design conception through production and analysis. The fiber science faculty offer supporting courses in fabric structure, color and functional characteristics for apparel students and contribute technical expertise to thesis/dissertation research. Working with a professor with whom your research interests align, you’ll also take courses with other department faculty and in other fields of study related to your thesis/dissertation research.

Individualized programs

A written thesis is required for completion of all graduate degrees in Fiber Science & Apparel Design. Candidates for the Ph.D. require at least three years of full-time study beyond the master’s degree. Candidates for the M.A. usually complete their degree requirements within two years.  For a complete program description, see the graduate student handbook.

Unlike undergraduate studies, graduate work focuses on independent research. At the masters level, you identify a research focus and select courses that will prepare you to conduct the research. At the Ph.D. level you are also expected to take coursework that will give you a broad base in all aspects of the apparel design discipline, along with courses that will help you develop your research topic. The core courses for graduate study in apparel design are:

• FSAD 6025: Design for Change: Imagining Decolonial Futures
• FSAD 6415: Anthropology of the Fashioned Body
• FSAD 6451: Fashion Curation
• FSAD 6500: Fashion, Media, and Technology
• FSAD 6640: Human Factors: Anthropometrics and Apparel
• FSAD 6700: Fashion Theory and Philosophy
• FSAD 6900: Understanding Functional Aspects of Clothing and Design