Graduate Competencies

Skills
Upon successful completion of this program, the students will be able to:

• Explain how the fashion business works from concept to consumer.
• Describe how the following levels of the industry interrelate: creating and developing new products, marketing newly created products, and buying merchandise.
• Describe all the processes involved in the production of textile materials, and apparel.
• Describe the operations of retail stores that sell fashion merchandise to the public.
• Define the primary careers related to the fashion industry.
• Qualify for entry-level fashion merchandising and retail management positions that have potential for advancement.
• Matriculate to a four-year baccalaureate program in fashion merchandising or enter the Fisher College Management Fashion Merchandising Concentration Bachelor Degree if they are inclined to do so.

Credentials

• Associate of Science Degree after two years
• Bachelor of Science in Management Degree with a Concentration in Fashion Merchandising after four years

Technologies

• Computer skills: Microsoft Word; Excel; PowerPoint