Costume Design Minor

This course introduces students to understanding how we dress ourselves. Students study the components and language of fashion - how and what we communicate through what we wear. Intended for those who want to study fashion, costume design, or understand how to dress a character.

This class explores the practice of Fashion Illustration techniques for presentation of contemporary fashion images including: croquis foundation, concept sketching (floats), full-color rendering, layout composition (storyboards), and presentation. Students will learn to illustrate their original ideas in an artistic manner by implementing rendering techniques used in contemporary fashion design and advertisements, by using tools such as the “Croquis” (undressed fashion figure). Students will gain confidence in their abilities through a progression of exercises in a variety of media, and through critique, resulting in a development of their own personal style while building their portfolio.

*Fashion Design students must take either Life Drawing I or Basic Fashion Drawing

This class will help students to develop basic figure drawing skills. Students will study drawing a human body in various shapes and poses in order to create designs for animated characters.

*Fashion Design students must take either Life Drawing I or Basic Fashion Drawing

Students will achieve a solid foundation in the basic but most essential sewing skills to begin their journey in the craft of sewing.

May test out by taking Optional Sewing Proficiency Exam

Building on the skills learned in Basic Sewing I, students will develop skills in more advanced sewing techniques.

Through hands-on analysis of fabric swatches, students will identify the properties of textiles and how they relate to performance and end use. They will study how textile fibers and other fabric characteristics affect garment quality and performance.

This course introduces students to pattern making and garment construction, learning core concepts on how to transform creative ideas into wearable designs. Students will apply construction principles from commercial patterns to make apparel, with an emphasis on basic construction techniques and fundamental fitting.

Students will take inspiration from the world around them and translate their ideas into finished products with a strong focus on emotions and communication. Bring your designs to life for theater, film, cosplay storytelling, or merchandising and fashion. Students will learn to design costumes for a specific set of characters, altering and manipulating garments for the stage. You will create character identity by breaking down a script to develop a “lookbook” for actors using mood boards, color stories, and renderings. You will also study the systems, terminology, and tools used by fashion and costume designers.

Prerequisite: FASH125

Theater texts, processes, and performances create a mirror that reflects an image of the world. This course engages students through the language, tools and processes of theater through the lens of visual art to articulate insights about human behavior, experience, culture & society using skills of stage makeup and hair as a tool for storytelling.

This course will offer students a practical guide to the theory and practice of theatrical makeup and hair design. They will learn how to conduct conceptual research, gain a basic skill level in stage makeup application and color selection. Using the student's own face as a canvas, this course will familiarize students with fundamental makeup techniques, equipment, and materials. Students will explore the relationship between the theatrical makeup designer, and performer, as well as character development through stage makeup. In addition to the textbook, required course materials include a Professional Makeup kit.

Prerequisite: ARTS221

This course introduces students to understanding how we dress ourselves. Students study the components and language of fashion - how and what we communicate through what we wear. Intended for those who want to study fashion, costume design, or understand how to dress a character

Prerequisite: FASH101