Fashion Merchandising & Design
20 courses · Mt. San Antonio College · 2026-2027 Catalog
Classes: Fall 2026 · Winter 2027
FASH 8 Introduction to Fashion
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- Lecture: 54
- Transfers to
- CSU
Fashion industry as a whole, including raw materials, manufacturing, retailing, technology, world economics, globalization, and careers. Includes apparel design, manufacturing, retail merchandising, sales, promotion, textile production, and career opportunities.
FASH 9 History of Western World Fashion
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- Lecture: 54
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Fashion and dress in Western civilization from ancient times through the present. An interdisciplinary approach is used to examine how clothing communicates values displayed by the individual and functions as a reflection of trends in technology, political events, social ideals, and cultural developments in art and music. Emphasis will be placed on the evolution of apparel design and style through historic development.
FASH 10 Clothing Construction I
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- Lecture: 36, Lab: 54
- Transfers to
- CSU
Essentials of industry standard apparel construction techniques using a variety of machines and equipment. Students will be given instruction in single needle machine operation, industrial overlock operation, and garment assembly.
FASH 12 Clothing Construction II
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- Lecture: 36, Lab: 54
- Prerequisite
- FASH 10
- Transfers to
- CSU
Fundamentals of advanced industry clothing construction techniques. Emphasis on the skills required for using apparel industrial sewing equipment, and apparel industry manufacturing concepts.
FASH 14 Dress, Culture, and Identity
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- Lecture: 54
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
The interrelatedness of socio-psychological, economic, cultural, sexual orientation, political, and religious influences on dress, adornment, and fashion in historical and contemporary context. Includes cross-cultural analysis of Western and non-Western dress.
FASH 15 Aesthetics in Fashion
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- Lecture: 54
- Transfers to
- CSU
The design process including creative inspiration, aesthetics, textiles, art theory, and artistic influences required for design within the fashion industry. Includes additional factors related to fashion such as aesthetics, beauty ideals, historic trends and silhouettes, clothing structure, culture, and industry trends.
FASH 16 Corset Construction
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- Lecture: 36, Lab: 54
- Prerequisite
- FASH 10
- Transfers to
- CSU
History of the corset, types of corset fabrics, trims and methods of embellishment. Essentials of standard apparel corset construction techniques using a variety of tools and equipment. Skills learned can be applied to historical or contemporary corsets.
FASH 17 Textiles
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- Lecture: 54
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Introductory study of the physical and chemical properties of textiles. Textile fiber production, classification, properties, and identification. Textiles coloration and finishing processes. Relationship of fiber characteristics, coloration, and finishing processes to fabric properties, performance, legislation, and care.
FASH 21 Patternmaking I
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- Lecture: 36, Lab: 54
- Prerequisite
- FASH 10
- Transfers to
- CSU
Flat patternmaking techniques to create garment designs using industry standards, dart transfer, and seam manipulation. First and production patterns will be created, constructed, and fitted.
FASH 22 Fashion Design By Draping
- Units
- 2
- Hours
- Lab: 108
- Prerequisite
- FASH 10 and FASH 21
- Transfers to
- CSU
Three dimensional dress design through draping fabrics directly to a dress form to create original designs and patterns to interpret fashion illustrations and technical flats.
FASH 23 Patternmaking II
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- Lecture: 36, Lab: 54
- Prerequisite
- FASH 21 and FASH 25
- Transfers to
- CSU
Intermediate pattern drafting and flat patternmaking with an introduction to technical packages. Students apply patternmaking theories to create ready-to-wear sportswear designs for misses and women's wear.
FASH 24 Fashion Patternmaking by Computer
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- Lecture: 36, Lab: 54
- Prerequisite
- FASH 21
- Transfers to
- CSU
Industrial fashion patternmaking and grading using Gerber computer-aided design (CAD) technology. Exploration of drawing techniques, pattern development, flat pattern manipulation, and the sizing and grading of patterns.
FASH 25 Fashion Digital Illustration and Design
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- Lecture: 36, Lab: 54
- Transfers to
- CSU
Technical fashion drawing techniques using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Includes drawing production flats, colorization, and digital fashion figures using a computer as a drafting tool. Exploration of popular computer techniques and apparel industry design methods.
FASH 57 Fashion Retailing and Production Technologies
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- Lecture: 54
Apparel wholesale to retail concepts and technologies used in fashion merchandising environment systems. The emphasis is on practical knowledge and use of software in the fashion industry.
FASH 59 Fashion Retailing
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- Lecture: 54
- Transfers to
- CSU
Overview of fashion retailing, on site environments, online fashion stores, management, and multi-channel retailers. Principles focus on the fashion segment of the retailing industry and the merchandising of fashion products.
FASH 62 Retail Buying and Merchandising
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- Lecture: 72
- Transfers to
- CSU
Principles and practices used in retail buying and merchandising environment. This course emphasizes the buyer's role in merchandising management, quantitative retail formulas, costing calculations, pricing strategies, and managing profit. Students will apply concepts learned using Microsoft Excel.
FASH 63 Fashion Promotion
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- Lecture: 54
- Transfers to
- CSU
Principles and techniques of integrated marketing, digital communications, and sales for online apparel wholesale and fashion products. Emphasis focuses on principles of integrated marketing and communication strategy, branding, digital media, and the comprehensive nature of promotion in the fashion environment.
FASH 66 Visual Merchandising Display
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- Lecture: 36, Lab: 54
- Prerequisite
- FASH 25
- Transfers to
- CSU
Design principles, color theory, space, and lighting in relation to visual merchandising display areas and interior design of stores using various applications of computer graphics programs.
FASH 81 Work Experience in Fashion Merchandising and Retail
- Units
- 1-3
- Prerequisite
- FASH 8 and FASH 62 and Instructor approval and Compliance with Work Experience regulations as designated in the College Catalog.
Provides fashion merchandising students with on-the-job experience in an approved work site which, is related to classroom-based learning. A minimum of 54 clock hours per semester in apparel merchandising, buying, and retail business required for each unit of credit. Students are responsible for securing their own internships and must be ready for the first week of class.
FASH 84 Work Experience in Fashion Design
- Units
- 1-2
- Prerequisite
- FASH 23 and FASH 24 and Instructor approval and Compliance with Work Experience regulations as designated in the College Catalog.
Provides fashion design students with on-the-job experience in an approved work site which is related to classroom-based learning. A minimum of 54 clock hours per semester in apparel technical design, patternmaking, and apparel production required for each unit of credit. Students are responsible for securing their own internships and must be ready for the first week of class.