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Develop Your Skills in Fashion
The Fashion minor emphasizes creativity and experimentation and offers you the opportunity to develop basic skills in product making, fashion business decision-making, historical contexts, materials, and design foundations.
A co-major in Fashion is also available. (21 semester hours)
Eligibility
Admission to the Fashion minor is by online application only. Students can apply to the Fashion minor during the first month of each semester. Applications are reviewed once each semester. All students who apply to the program are accepted for the following semester.
Fashion Minor Curriculum and Courses
Key content includes an overview of the fashion industry, product making, design foundations, textile materials, historical context, fashion business, and opportunities to build skill in a cognate area, such as fashion business – including buying, planning, and forecasting – fashion design, or fashion entrepreneurship.
- FAS 101 Introduction to the Fashion Industry
- FAS 340 Internship
- FAS 463 Fashion Trend Forecasting
- STC 259 Foundations of Campaign Design
at miami, there’s something for everyone.
Opportunities for Fashion Design Students
- Apply for Miami’s Study Abroad programs at locations such as Luxembourg and Florence.
- Apply to our NYC Fashion and Study Away trip
- Apply to the MUF & D Annual Fashion Show and design a collection for the show
- Gain experience in the industry by obtaining an Internship in Fashion
- Study fashion garments from our Fashion Costume Collection
Resources
Facilities
Facilities include a textile library and lab, historic costume collection, well-lit drawing/design rooms, industrial sewing machines, professional dress forms, space for draping and patternmaking, digital fabric printer, and display areas for 2D and 3D student work. In addition, students have access to a digital design lab and the King Library Maker Space with 3D printers, sublimation textile printer, laser cutter/engraver, CNC mills, embroidery machines, touchscreens, virtual reality headsets, teleprompters, 360 cameras, and more.
Active Alumni
Our program is enhanced by numerous Miami alumni who are high-level executives in the Fashion industry, one of the biggest industries in the world. They contribute program support with fabric, scholarships, mentoring, internships, and jobs.
Fashion Design Related Student Organizations
In addition, fashion students can join the Miami Fashion Community by joining a fashion-related student organization:
Miami University Fashion and Design (MUF&D)
MUF&D is the largest student organization on campus with 750+ members and numerous leadership opportunities, including the production of an annual student-led fashion show.
MUSE MGMT
MUSE MGMT provides access to personal brand consulting, portfolio building opportunities, and a vast access to industry professionals and established alumni in the spaces of modeling, makeup, hair, wardrobe, photography, and videography.
UP Magazine
UP Magazine provides opportunities relating to strategic communications, media and culture, publishing, and social media in preparation for fashion industry careers.
Futures in Retail
Futures in Retail (National Retail Federation (NRF) affiliated) develops awareness of data analytics, supply chain, finance, accounting, merchandising, marketing, management, and interactive media studies careers in the retail sector.
Admissions Requirements
You must complete an application for the fashion programs! Admission to the Fashion Program is by online application only.
- Applications to the Fashion programs are reviewed once each semester.
- The application to the Fashion Program is open for a month at the beginning of each semester, accessible from the Fashion Program’s web page.
- Then, the applications will be closed for the rest of each semester.
- After the application period ends, all applications will be accepted and DARs will reflect the acceptance before registration for the next semester.
*Note for students who have not yet been accepted to the program: Anyone can register for FAS 101 Introduction to the Fashion Industry during any semester, as well as any other 100 or 200 level fashion course that still has seats after current fashion students have registered (once general registration begins ) as long as they have fulfilled any prerequisites. Before that, most fashion courses are restricted to students who have already been accepted into the Fashion Program. If you wish to register for a course and are not allowed, please put your name on the Force Add a Course list, and you may be admitted later.
Contact Us
Natalie Reed
Assistant Teaching Professor
Fashion Program Coordinator
Department of Art
Boyd Hall 222
551 Western College Dr.
Oxford, OH 45056