FITS 100 Digital Warriors
Effective digital communication is integral to every facet of life. In this course, students will learn about current and emerging technology utilized to communicate within the fashion industry and applicable to many other career paths. Digital literacy and digital design skills will be at the forefront of the course through multi-disciplinary, hands-on experience using industry software. Students will develop and refine their abilities to become successful communicators in the digital world.
FITS 200 Design Warrior
This course is intended to prepare students to use Adobe Creative Cloud applications in Fashion Studies. Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign will be used to create and manipulate digital images of apparel designs. Students will practice using photo correction tools; layers, masks, and channels; selection tools; vector drawing and paint tools; and advanced layer techniques to create designs and mockups, learning to select the appropriate Adobe CC tools for each step, moving seamlessly between applications. Students will learn to create and publish completed designs in print or web formats with attention to layout designs in each medium.
FITS 215 Mechanics of Fashion
A comprehensive overview of how the fashion business works. The course will feature topics covering the past and present in fashion personalities, fads, pop culture, product development and retail. The class will go through examples of people, principles, management practices, and retailer. In addition, we will examine fashions ethical awareness of the twenty first century.
FITS 330 Fashion Trend in Time
The class will consist of a systematic exploration of the various realms: Egyptians to present where the relationship between fashion and history can be observed. These realms include gender, race, class, law, capital, religion, and the like. A thematic exploration of the topic of the class should serve as a double introduction to fashion history, Arizona history (expands from indigenous cultures that have contributed to Arizona fashion) and fashion theory (especially from the post-structuralist era onwards). The class will be about fashion as theory, rather than theory applied to fashion.
FITS 345 Science of Textiles
This course integrates the chemical composition, molecular arrangement, and physical structure of natural and manufactured fibers. Yarn and fabric manufacturing processes as well as finishing techniques are included. Attention is given to how these characteristics and techniques affect function, performance, and quality of textile products.