Associate in Arts - Fashion Design - Santa Monica - California - Santa Monica College - SMC - I382

Clothes designers create new apparel
and accessory designs. They may sketch the garment, cut the
pattern, select the fabric and materials, and in some cases construct
the sample garment. They may arrange for the showing of
a line at sales meetings or fashion shows.

Fashion Design (40 units)

REQUIRED BASIC CORE CLASSES: (11-12 units)
Fashion 1, Trends and Design (3)
Fashion 3, Apparel Construction (3)
Fashion 6A, Pattern Analysis & Design (2) or Fashion 13, Draping I (3)
Fashion 9A, Fashion Illustration & Merchandising (3)

SECOND LEVEL CLASSES: (11-12 units)
Fashion 2, Color Analysis (3)
Fashion 5, Fashion Buying (3)
Fashion 10, Advanced Design & Construction (3)
Fashion 13, Draping I (3) or Fashion 6A, Pattern Analysis & Design (2)

THIRD LEVEL CLASSES
Fashion 6B, Pattern Drafting and Design (Intermediate) (3)
Fashion 11, Tailoring (2)
Fashion 14, Draping II (3)
Elective

FOURTH LEVEL CLASSES
Fashion 7, Fabrics for Fashion Design and Merchandising (3)
Fashion 8, History of Fashion Design (3)
Fashion 12, Fashion Show Production (3)
Elective

Additional elective courses to bring the total to 40 units, selected
from:
Art 10A, Design I (3,3)
Art 20B, Drawing II (3,3)
Business 63, Principles of entrepreneurship (3)
Fashion 9B, Advanced Fashion Illustration and Advertising (2)
Fashion 15, Ethnic Fashion (3)
Fashion 16, Pattern Grading (2)
Fashion 17, Apparel Production manufacturing Techniques (3)
Fashion 18, Computer Assisted Fashion Illustrator and Design (2)
Fashion 19, Fashion Marketing (3)
Fashion 20, Window Display for Fashion (3)