Fashion Industry Studies – M.F.I.S.
The Master of Fashion Industry Studies degree in Fashion Industry Studies from Kent State University robustly addresses the highly interdisciplinary character of practice within fashion as an industry with a unique set of parameters that transverse many traditional academic boundaries.
Duration
1 year
Starting Date
August
Tuition Fee
$ 17,982 per full
Location
Kent, United States
About the program
Fashion Industry Studies is an initial master’s level degree for the academic advancement of students to engage in learning and experiences applicable to the fashion industry. The Fashion Industry Studies program from Kent State University prepares professionals who intentionally use cross-disciplinary and applied research methods to address complex issues and provide impactful solutions for the fashion industry.
Learning Outcomes
Graduates of this program will be able to:
- Demonstrate a capacity for critical analysis of fashion to identify pertinent issues.
- Demonstrate an ability to use cross-disciplinary and applied research methods with appropriate knowledge and technologies.
- Demonstrate the skill of critically generating concepts and-or pragmatic solutions through testing and experimentation that connects fashion history, theory and-or practice(s).
- Demonstrate abilities to effectively synthesize ideas and present innovative and pragmatic research-based investigations.
Courses included:
- The Fashion Industry: a Unifying Lens
- Forms of Inquiry in the Fashion Industry
- Fashion Industry Practicum
- Advanced Fashion Industry Practice
- Historic Textiles
- Theories as Applied to the Fashion Industry
- Fashion Industry Design Management
- Techstylelab: Digital Design and New Media in the Fashion Industry