Curriculum

[353.213A] Fashion Drawing

In this basic course in fashion illustration, students will study anatomy as the basis for understanding the human figure. Topics will cover an analysis of skeletal and muscular structures, proportions and movements of the human figure through quick sketches from live models in various poses in the studio.

[353.214] Fashion Illustration

This course will cover the skills and techniques for illustrating fashion designs on the human figure. To develop an understanding of fashion design, students will use a variety of illustration techniques, approaches, and media.

[353.216B] Textile Fabrics

Study on the structures and properties of yarns, fabrics, knits, and other textile products in relation to serviceability and appearance.

[353.221A] Textiles and Apparel Products Lab.

An introductory lab course to identify and analysis of textile materials. Methods for the identification of textiles are microscopy, burning, staining, solubility and other analytical methods. Finishes of chemical modification on fibers are included. The evaluation of textile yarns, fabric and garments (sewn product) with emphasis on the principles and use of standards, the philosophy of testing, quality control and statistical evaluation of test data are included.

[353.223A] Clothing Construction

Course that focuses on designing apparel through the Flat Pattern method. Students will learn to develop clothing designs from a basic pattern and will acquire fundamental skills such as clothing construction including measuring, working with simple patterns, using a sewing machine and basic construction techniques. Blouses and skirts will be designed and constructed. The goal of this course is to expand the student’s competencies in pattern design, analysis and fitting test. Also, this course will focus on the pattern design of women’s garments. (Prerequisite: 353.226)

[353.226] Technical Pattern Development for the Human Body

This course will study the components of the human body and the changes in body type through movement. Students will mathematically categorize the human body by using Martin’s method and 3-D method and apply it to clothing construction. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the fitting concept and techniques.

[353.227] Clothing & Health

Learn the relationship between physical health and thermal living environment of human including clothing microclimate. Based on this relationship, further investigate
1) various therapeutic clothing gears that help preventing and treating disease of patients; and 2) daily clothing life programs that helps improving health of general population.

[353.228] Textile Fibers

This course will help students to understand the principal performance of textiles for clothing. The morphology, properties, and end uses of each fiber will be learned.

[353.318] Textile Design

In this course, textile design techniques will be provided as means of artistic expression. Various surface design methods will be covered and digital textile printing will be practiced to perform design on textiles.

[353.328] Textile Care and Experimental Lab.

This course will provide the basic knowledge for textile care including laundering and disposal. Topics will cover the theory of detergency and its evaluation, bleaching and softening, and the relationship between textiles and environmental pollution.

[353.330] Clothing Physiology and Lab.

This course concerns the biological function of clothing. We will study microclimate regulation and comfort, body protection, and motion adaptability and human physiological responses. Health-related benefits by clothes and the relationship between environment, human body, and clothing will be the center of our studies.

[353.331A] Construction of Korean Costume

Introduction to the principles of Korean traditional costume: emphasis on learning the construction and sewing methods of Korean women’s costume. Students will understand the Korean aesthetic sense embedded in the costume, hence, comprehend the importance of harmonizing the beauty of the Korean traditional costume with modern clothing. Students will be given the opportunity to produce their own Korean costume, using the skills of pattern making learned earlier in the course. This course will help form the basis of Han-bok pattern development so that we can apply the knowledge attained to make other adaptations of the Korean traditional costume.

[353.332A] Finishing and Dyeing of Textiles Lab.

As an introduction to the use of colorants, this course teaches various ways to apply the dyes on yarns, fabrics, and other textile materials. Laboratory work covers the basic experiment on dyes and dyeing, and several techniques of practical dyeing and printing.

[353.333] Fashion Marketing

This course introduces distinctive characteristics of fashion products in terms of marketing. The major concepts of this course include fashion fundamentals, strategies for products and brands, market segmentations, fashion retailing, consumer behavior, and production planning.

[353.335] Global Fashion Business

Under the globalized context, students will study current issues, characteristics, and prospects of the fashion business. Practical capabilities required for fashion majors will be covered.

[353.336] Fashion Merchandising

Emphasis on principles used in the merchandising of fashion products. Examines the interrelationship between trend and market analysis, merchandise planning, manufacturing, marketing, and retailing. Some computer applications related to mathematical concept and calculations used in developing merchandise budgets, exploring how merchandise budgets translate into buying decisions.

[353.337] Fashion Market Research

Fashion industry heavily depends on knowledge of ever changing environment. This course is designed to cover the whole process of fashion market research from collecting data, analyzing, interpreting, and applying them in fashion firms’ decision making. Students will practice data analysis with the help of a statistical package (SPSS) in computer lab.

[353.416A] Socio-psychological Aspects of Clothing

Clothing is an important phenomenon in corporate culture. This course applies concepts and theories of social psychology to explain human behavior related to clothing. Major concepts are psychological factors such as personal characteristics, desire, and self-concept, as well as social factors such as sex, age, role, status, symbolic communication, and impression formation. Understanding these various factors can make comprehension of human clothing behavior and fashion marketing.

[353.417A] Functional Clothing

This course covers the functions of clothing such as body protection from the hazardous environment and maximizing work efficiency. As example of functional clothing, sports wear, clothing for individuals with disabilities, space suit and the garments and equipments for protection from heat, cold, chemical, flame, solid particles, sound, biological, electrical, and radiant hazard will be treated. The course reviews basic theories about human physiological responses in various environments, characteristic of textiles and other materials, clothing system, and body motion. Also, the whole process of developing functional clothing from designing to evaluating its efficiency through wear-trials will be studied.

[353.428B] Apparel Fabrication

To practice the planning & developing trendy fabrics by the analysis of the fashion trend and their effect on textiles.
Newly developed textiles are studied and their functions and fashionabilities are discussed. Also students practice forecasting textile trends on the basis of textiles knowledge and current fashion textiles.

[353.429A] Fashion Retailing

Emphasis on retailing strategies of fashion products with a review of domestic and international fashion retailing business. Examines effects of fashion stores attributes, salesperson management, and visual merchandising on retailers’ performance.

[353.430] History of Korean Costume

This course surveys the clothing styles of Korean men and women from prehistoric times to present. The overview includes the origin, adoption, and abandonment of style. Emphasis will be on the unique aesthetic sense of Korean clothing from a cultural perspective.

[353.431D] Fashion Trend and Design Planning

Introduction of fashion brand launching and fashion design based on the survey of market environment & the analysis of fashion trend information.

[353.434] Internship in Fashion Industry

Gives the student the opportunity to observe professionals fulfilling their job responsibilities. Enables the student to test theories and techniques. Tests the student’s level of competency in the skills in the fashion field. (Restrictions: requires permission of instructor)

[353.435] Technical Design

Study the process of technical design and the role of the technical designers during the apparel commercialization process. Understand the process of apparel commercialization in the global market, the production process that changes according to the methods of apparels production; learn the professional terms and information related to production process; acquire skills and knowledge needed for quality control of apparel products. Through team projects, set up virtual apparel firm and prepare a paper reporting the application of actual technical designer work in apparel production. Through the above course, acquire professional knowledge and skills and strengthen practical ability.

[M1461.000100] Fashion e-Business

Recent application of information and communication technology to every fashion business practice throughout the supply chain, is an inevitable trend. This course intends to foster students’ creative yet analytical skills that can be directly applied for their industrial career development. Through lectures and using software program, the course will especially focus on issues such as mass-customization of fashion product and service, 3D visual fashion retailing, and mobile communication in fashion promotion.

[M1461.000600] Fashion and Color

This course is an introduction to the use of color as a designing tool for fashion design. It will help to understand the interrelationship between color and form.

[M1461.000700] History of Fashion and Culture

In the class fashion history will be understood along with the culture and art history. It will give students the perspectives for contemporary fashion design and fashion system. Also the acknowledgment will help students to get rich sources and inspiration for their fashion design process easily to predict up-coming fashion trend.

[M1461.000900] Fashion Collection

This course is a continuation of Basic Fashion Design. Design sketch is translated into a production process. Developing of fashion design from analysis of various trends, ethnic costumes, works of famous fashion designers and understanding of contemporary art and design will deepen students’ design worlds. Students have the opportunity to show their fashion works on the real stage and do the planning for their own show and directing the fashion show for themselves.

[M2174.000400] Textile and Fiber Chemistry

In order to express aesthetic appearance and functions of fashion textiles, scientific knowledge and technology are required. The course intends to study the basic chemistry of the textiles and fibers. Basic organic compounds for textile fibers will be examined with respect to their chemical structure, inter/intramolecular bonding, condensation/addition reaction, etc. This course also involves experiments as a preparation step to analyse the fiber properties and to fabricate fashion textiles.

[M2174.000500] Fashion Marketing Communication

Visual image is a focal component for marketing fashion products and makes the marketing communication process unique. This course is designed to give an overview of the various aspects of fashion marketing communication. Various class activities will be implemented including special speeches of industry experts and case studies. The goal of the course is to provide in-depth knowledge and vision to students on fashion marketing communication strategies and its changing future.

[M2174.000600] Apparel Manufacturing Process

Recently, automation has become popular in most manufacturing industries due to the advancement in computer and mechanical engineering. This lecture aims at providing the students with the basic knowledge for new ideas on automation by introducing the practical examples in textile and apparel industries as well as by discussing together the recent research trends.

[M2174.000700] Fashion Technology

Recently, many studies are being made on the development of value added fashion items by combining the traditional fashion products and state-of-the-art digital technology. This lecture aims at providing the students with the essential knowledge for fusing those technologies regarding the aesthetic, functional, and technical perspectives.

[M1461.001500] Apparel Pattern CAD

It is a subject to enhance a developing ability for clothing product within Ubiquitous environment which is mixed IT and Fashion. Students will be acquired various digital techniques through CAD(Computer Aided Design)Programs Like as Apparel Pattern CAD systems and Virtual Clothing Programs. They will be acquired about pattern making managerial skills with apparel CAD system, Grading and Marker making currently used clothing industry. At the same time, they will develop a pattern making and a design variation with making virtual clothing.

[M2174.000900] Women’s Tailoring

It is a course to practice about designing women’s tailored clothes, selecting appropriate fabrics, pattern making and manufacture process, based on the knowledge from Textile Fabrics, Theory of Fashion Design and Planning of Clothing Construction. The student will be practicing how to construct and sew a Jacket through understanding a lined clothes using Lining and Interfacing. Understanding body shape and pattern making technique will be developed through studying and practicing pattern making with body shape. Moreover, the student will develop their creativity to match design variation, color, material comfortably with virtual pattern making system.

[M2174.001200] CAD for Fashion

In this course, students will study the operation and function of computer programs that are used for apparel design, textile design and other design industry applications. Students will be taught the various tools to express lines, shape, colour and texture as well as learning how to apply such knowledge into fashion illustration, fashion design and textile design.

[M1461.001400] Smart Garment Manufacturing Technology

Due to the recent advancement in electronics, various electronic devices have become smaller and lighter. There is a growing worldwide interest in smart garments, which can be realized by the incorporation of such devices. This lecture aims at providing the students who are majoring in clothing science with the basic knowledge of smart garments by introducing the technology trend, hardware, and software development methodology.

[353.739] Developing Leadership in Fashion Industry

This course provides 10 special lectures by inviting 10 CEO’s in the clothing and textile industry who are recognized by their outstanding and prominent leadership and expertise in their fields. Special lecturers from the core sectors including fiber and textiles, fabric and fashion product design, manufacturing, retailing, fashion journalism, and fashion marketing communications will share their keen insight to the industry. The students enrolled are required to submit a final report based on the lectures to envision feasible solutions and directions for the industry.

[M0000.029000] Human-centered wearables development

Wearables defines all clothes, devices or systems that can be worn or attached to the human body. This course aims to explore human-oriented approaches to the design and development of wearables with specific users in mind. Students will be able to learn the general product development process as well as necessary requirements to execute a hands-on wearables development project.

[M1461.002200] Fashion Styling

This course is for learning the basics of creative fashion design work, developing design elements such as lines, shapes, colors, and materials to fit the trend by applying design principles. The objective of this course is to understand the basics of fashion design details, and learning how to produce design pieces through the modification of such designs. Furthermore, this course helps students understand the coordination and transformation of different fashion items and the expression techniques needed to complete the style.

[M1461.002300] 2D Fashion Studio

The object of this course is to learn the basics of 2D fashion design and creative pattern management as well as modification, from the perspective of fashion designers and providers. For fashion designs are ultimately completed on the three-dimensional body, the designer should have a firm grasp of a design structure that makes sketches realistic and feasible. This course helps understand the design techniques that can be creatively completed with various materials and design details in mind.

[M1461.002600] 3D Fashion Studio

The specific view point of seeing 3-D body shape will be obtained through practices to develop the capacity for more creative fashion design. Understanding the process that 2-D fabric applies into the 3-D body will make students have sharp eyes for the constructions and silhouette.