MCCCD Program Description

Major: 5768 Catalog Year: 2023-2024 Effective Term: 2018 Spring Last Admit Term: 2018 Summer Award: CCL Total Credits: 16 CIP Code: 52.1802	Primary College: Initiating College: Mesa Community College Program Availability: Not Found Program Availability: College-Specific Program Availability: College Specific Field of Interest: Not Found Instructional Council: Family and Consumer Sciences (34) GPA: 2.0
SOC Code: 13-1022

Description: The Certificate of Completion (CCL) in Textile and Apparel: Fashion Stylist program is designed for students with an interest in visual display and merchandise styling for wholesale or retail trades. It provides students with skills defining target market, historical and current fashions, visual display techniques, color theory, and fashion styling practices. Completers of the certificate will enter the fashion industry at entry-level positions but with an understanding of the styling profession.

Consumer Program Costs and Career Information

Suggested Course Plan Sequenced by Semester

Required Courses

TEC106 History of Fashion 3
MKT/TEC109 Introduction to Fashion Merchandising 3
MKT/TEC151 Display and Visual Merchandising 3
TEC245 Wardrobe Strategies 3
INT150 Color and Design 3
TEC272AA Retail Merchandising Internship 1

Credits: 16

Restricted Electives
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General Electives
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Program Competencies
1. Identify items of apparel, fabrics, colors, hair styles, headdresses, and accessories unique to each period of historic costume. (TEC106) 2. Interpret the effect of price and personal income on the purchasing behavior of consumers and apply the various theories of fashion adoption as it relates to this behavior. (MKT/TEC109, TEC245) 3. Identify and assess the economic, political, and historical factors that influence the changing pattern of fashion. (MKT/TEC109, TEC245) 4. Use sales presentation skills as they relate to the fashion industry. (MKT/TEC109, MKT/TEC151) 5. Coordinate all promotion including displays, advertising, fashion shows, and personal selling efforts. (MKT/TEC151) 6. Coordinate current fashion trends in different mediums for presentation on video, print, runway, or customer/client. (TEC245) 7. Identify color theory and its usage in fashion and other mediums for presentation. (INT150) 8. Perform assigned career duties in a work setting. (TEC272AA)
+ indicates course has prerequisites and/or corequisites. ++ indicates that any suffixed course may be selected. MCCCD Governing Board Approval Date: March 28, 2017

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