MCCCD Program Description

Major: 5768 Catalog Year: 2024-2025 Effective Term: 2020 Fall Last Admit Term: 9999 Award: CCL Total Credits: 19 CIP Code: 52.1902	Primary College: Initiating College: Mesa Community College Program Availability: Not Found Program Availability: College-Specific Program Availability: College Specific: MC Field of Interest: Visual and Performing Arts Instructional Council: Family and Consumer Sciences GPA: 2.0
SOC Code: Upon completion of this degree, students may pursue a career as: 27-1026.00 Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers

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 with additional understanding of the styling profession.

Learning Outcomes
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 using various theories of fashion adoption. (MKT/TEC109, TEC245) 3. 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. (TEC150, MKT/TEC151) 6. Coordinate current fashion trends in different mediums for presentation on video, print, runway, or customer/client. (TEC245) 7. Assess color theory and its usage in fashion and other mediums for presentation. (ART113) 8. Perform assigned career duties in a work setting. (TEC272AA)

Program Notes
Students must earn a grade of C or better in all courses within the program.

Admission Criteria
None

Required Courses

ART113 Color 3
MKT/TEC109 Introduction to Fashion Merchandising 3
MKT/TEC151 Display and Visual Merchandising 3
TEC106 History of Fashion 3
TEC150 Fashion Show Production 3
TEC245 Wardrobe Strategies 3
+ TEC272AA Retail Merchandising Internship 1

Credits: 19

Restricted Electives
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General Electives
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+ indicates course has prerequisites and/or corequisites.
++ indicates that any suffixed course may be selected.

MCCCD Governing Board Approval Date: December 10, 2019

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