Fashion Studies
MDC - Media, Design, and Communication Arts · 52 one-credit courses
Students discover the world of fashion illustration and learn to sketch a croquis, incorporate simple gestures and apply these skills to create fashion illustrations.
Students develop an understanding of clothing within the context of society.
Students develop a broad awareness of textile uses in apparel, home furnishings, commercial furnishings and industry and the role of the environment in relation to the textile industry.
Students learn how to safely use and care for sewing and pressing equipment, and apply these skills during project assembly.
Students experiment with creative ways to redesign, recycle or restore a project by repairing, customizing or embellishing. Students use these techniques to update or create something new from something old.
Students use basic sewing skills and techniques to construct a home or personal accessory.
Students learn about knit fabrics in the creation of a unique, attractive and serviceable garment.
Students learn how to determine pattern size, choose a suitable pattern and woven fabric, make pattern alterations, and prepare the fabric and pattern for layout. Students apply these skills during the assembly of a simple garment.
Students develop a basic understanding of the technology used in the construction of a creative project, using digital embroidery.
Students explore various yarn or textile art techniques and apply basic skills while creating a project.
Students develop project design and management skills to extend and enhance competencies and skills in other CTS courses through contexts that are personally relevant.
Students apply techniques and knowledge to create a variety of fashion illustrations with a focus on movement, poses and details of heads, hands and feet.
Students develop and apply knowledge, skills and techniques necessary to operate a personal computer to design and draft patterns for fashion items for the lower torso.
Students discover the historical influences on fashion, and relate past fashions to present-day styles.
Students change a basic skirt or pants pattern into a design of choice, using flat pattern designing techniques, and testing the design by creating a muslin.
Students use body measurements to draft a basic skirt or pant. They demonstrate drafting techniques needed to create the desired look, and test the draft by sewing in muslin.
Students learn about activewear fabrics and how to make unique, attractive and serviceable activewear.
Students research, experiment with and produce a project, using a specialty fabric.
Students create a project for a client whose needs require special measuring, designing, fitting, construction techniques and/or use of resources.
Students apply design and sewing techniques to create a home décor fashion.
Students practise a variety of embellishment techniques and apply these skills to a finished project.
Students apply intermediate construction techniques and knowledge of fabrics and patterns to complete a garment for the lower torso.
Students learn about policies and techniques used by retail operations in the fashion industry.
Students remove and re-cover or use innovation to create an upholstered item.
Students study accessories related to fashion, and produce a fashion accessory.
Students develop an understanding of the skills related to computerized embroidery sewing machines, embroidery software and embroidery and the Internet.
Students analyze different costuming requirements and construct a costume for personal use.
Students create a textile art project using intermediate techniques.
Students develop project design and management skills to extend and enhance competencies and skills in other CTS courses through contexts that are personally relevant.
Students develop project design and management skills to extend and enhance competencies and skills in other CTS courses through contexts that are personally relevant.
Students apply prior learning and demonstrate the attitudes, skills and knowledge required by an external organization to achieve a credential/credentials or an articulation.
Students create a fashion line by using technical or impressionistic techniques.
Students, with limited direction, use a personal computer and appropriate software to design and draft patterns for the upper torso.
Students use body measurements to draft a basic bodice and sleeve, demonstrate drafting techniques needed to create the desired look, and test the draft by sewing in muslin.
Students create a jacket or coat, using contemporary tailoring techniques.
Students change a basic bodice and sleeve pattern into a design of choice, using flat pattern designing techniques and testing the design by sewing in muslin.
Students study past couturiers and create their own haute couture fashions.
Students discover the world of fashion designers.
Students research and learn about the fashions of other cultures and produce a project related to their research.
Students learn about the characteristics and techniques for preparing, sewing and caring for an advanced specialty fabric. Subsequently, they create and construct a distinctive project.
Students will construct an original design using yardage created from textile or nonfibre material.
Students apply advanced construction techniques and knowledge of patterns and fabrics to complete a garment for the upper torso.
Students analyze fashion retail terms, operations and trends.
Students produce a design of choice using draping techniques and test the design by sewing in muslin.
Students create a project using industrial sewing techniques and/or industrial sewing equipment.
Students develop a basic understanding of digitizing technology used in the exploration of a variety of designs using digital embroidery tools and techniques.
Students analyze different costuming requirements and construct a costume specific to a theatrical production.
Students create a textile arts project using advanced techniques in the categories of fabric piecing, needlework, weaving or fabric creation for a target market.
Students learn about fabrics suitable for outdoor clothing and construct a garment designed for outerwear.
Students develop project design and management skills to extend and enhance competencies and skills in other CTS courses through contexts that are personally relevant.
Students develop project design and management skills to extend and enhance competencies and skills in other CTS courses through contexts that are personally relevant.
Students apply prior learning and demonstrate the attitudes, skills and knowledge required by an external organization to achieve a credential/credentials or an articulation.