You’ll learn how to design a collection, create eco-friendly fashion, and carry out ethical manufacturing. Upcycling, sustainable design, local sourcing, workers' rights, and fair trade are frequent discussion topics in classes.
Design with a Focus on Ethics and Sustainable Fashion
You’ll learn how to design a collection, create eco-friendly fashion, and carry out ethical manufacturing. Upcycling, sustainable design, local sourcing, workers' rights, and fair trade are frequent discussion topics in classes.
Sustainable practice is incorporated at every level of St. Catherine University’s fashion design program curriculum, from repurposing textiles to creating looks from recycled material. So is technology. You’ll learn to be fashion-forward and digitally innovative!
St. Kate’s Fashion Design and Merchandising Advisory Committee ensures that our highly-ranked fashion programs are relevant and align with industry trends. In fact, this committee — made up of fashion leaders and lovers — is regularly invited to speak in classes.
You’ll graduate with three portfolios to share with future employers: a department portfolio, a student portfolio, and an e-portfolio — essential to marketing yourself in this age of information.
Careers in Fashion Design
When pursuing a degree in fashion design, you'll gain a strong foundation in textile science, garment construction, fashion history, and sustainable design, as well as a global perspective on dress. With a fashion design degree, you can work as a:
lead or senior designer for a major label
freelance or independent designer
buyer for a major corporation
production or technical manager for a creative company
costume designer for regional theater
personal stylist
Getting a bachelor’s degree in fashion design also positions you for graduate work in fashion, design, or other fields, including business, international relations, journalism, cultural anthropology, or museum or archival studies.
Established by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in 1905, St. Kate’s intellectual tradition of Catholic Social Teaching guides our commitment to inclusivity, advancing wisdom and justice, and powering lives of meaning.
We educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the Catholic intellectual tradition, emphasizing scholarly inquiry and social justice teaching as lived by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.
We welcome a rich diversity of students, with a baccalaureate college for women at the heart of the University and graduate and adult colleges for women and men. Committed to excellence and opportunity, St. Catherine University develops leaders who act with integrity.
Our mission is based on three core principles — women, Catholic, liberal arts — supported by three endowed chairs.Our vision is to be respected globally for educating women who transform the world.
Values
Academic Excellence We embrace a culture of learning that drives the students, faculty, and staff to discover, acquire, and apply knowledge.
Community
We welcome all without distinction in the spirit of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.
Integrity
We demonstrate honesty and openness, and build trust with all that we do.
Social Justice
We create an environment of equity, fairness, and respect, and we work for systemic change so Earth and all people thrive.
Reflection
We contemplate all life experience and examine the mystery of human purpose.
The highly ranked BS in Fashion Design program is globally recognized for training team-oriented designers who understand the interrelationship of design, production and commerce while creatively answering the ever-changing needs of the fashion marketplace.
The BFA in Fashion Design trains the next generation of designers to be on the forefront of fashion, technology, and material innovation.
This course offers an advanced study of the principles of patternmaking. Students will execute an original design using advanced patternmaking processes and industry techniques. Prerequisite: FASH 2382 Patternmaking II and junior or senior standing or by permission of the President.
The fashion design track emphasizes developing aesthetic concepts in apparel. In this track, you will develop your skills in front-end research and understanding trends, aesthetics, art in fashion, fashion illustration, 3D rendering, and developing creative concepts.
The Fashion Design Certificate provides students with the skills required for entry-level positions, including design assistant, assistant patternmaker, sample room manager, production assistant, stylist, and assistant technical designer.
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