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Fashion and Apparel Design – Program of Study

FYE: FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE  
Required Major Courses: Fall credits
FYE100: Systems of Drawing
3.0
FYE150: Digital 2D
3.0
Required Major Courses: Spring  
FYE199: IAS: FAD: Beginning Sewing
3.0
Required in fall or spring; completed in first year  
FYE110: Visual Language
3.0
FYE130: Fabrication
3.0
FYE121: RPC:
3.0
FYE151: Digital 4D
3.0
Liberal Studies: FYE  
WRTG120: Processes of Inquiry
3.0
ARTH151: Intro to the Practice of Art & Design History
3.0
HUMT121: Intro to Humanities
3.0
Students complete 15 credits each semester first year to complete degree requirements in four years  
SOPHOMORE  
Required Major Courses: Fall credits
FAD260: Patternmaking & Construction I
3.0
FAD262: Process of Apparel Design & Illustration
3.0
FAD264: Survey of Global Textiles
3.0
Required Major Courses: Spring  
FAD261: Patternmaking & Construction II
3.0
FAD263: Digital Apparel Design
3.0
FAD265: Process of Apparel Industry
3.0
Studio Electives  
3cr Studio Elective
3.0
Liberal Studies: Sophomore  
WRTG200: Critical and Creative Forms
3.0
NASC220: Patterns in Nature
3.0
ARTH217: History of Global Fashion
3.0
Students complete 15 credits each semester second year to complete degree requirements in four years  
JUNIOR  
Required Major Courses: Fall credits
FAD360: Patternmaking & Construction III
3.0
FAD362: Apparel Design Studio I
3.0
FAD364: Digital Patternmaking & Construction
3.0
Required Major Courses: Spring  
FAD363: Apparel Design Studio II
3.0
FAD365: Junior Apparel Seminar
3.0
FAD307: FAD elective
3.0
Liberal Studies: Junior  
WRTG300: The Creative Professional in Context
3.0
NASC320/350/321: NS Elective
3.0
HUMT340: Topic in Humanities
3.0
HUMT380: Service Learning
3.0
Students complete 15 each semester third year to complete degree requirements  
SENIOR  
Required Major Courses: Fall credits
FAD460: Apparel Design Thesis I
3.0
FAD307: FAD elective
3.0
Required Major Courses: Spring  
FAD461: Apparel Design Thesis II
3.0
FAD307: FAD elective
3.0
Studio Electives  
3cr studio elective:
3.0
3cr studio elective
3.0
Liberal Studies: Senior  
WRTG400: Senior Writing Seminar
3.0
ARTH318: AH Elect
3.0
ARTH318: AH Elect
3.0
HUMT340: Topic in Humanities
3.0
Students complete 15 credits each semester fourth year to complete degree requirements  
120 credits minimum required to complete degree  

News

Penfield Poster 2024 winners announced

Continuing a long-standing collaboration between advertising agency Cramer-Krasselt and the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD), juniors in Illustration IV designed posters for the Annual Croquet Ball fundraiser at the Penfield Children’s Center.

Löwe: Senior Exhibition 2024

“Löwe,” Zach Scharrer’s ’24 (Product Design) senior exhibition project at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD), is a bespoke adaptive formalwear line designed in collaboration with employees at Independence First.

Forgotten Nation: Senior Exhibition 2024

“Forgotten Nation,” Tanesha Spencer’s ’24 (Communication Design) senior exhibition project at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD), is a guerilla marketing campaign intended to bring awareness to the 5,712 missing and murdered Indigenous women in the United States.

MIAD celebrates one-year anniversary of offsite gallery

The Gallery at The Ave, the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design’s (MIAD) first offsite gallery, celebrated its one-year anniversary at the opening reception of its newest show, “Culture Starters: Emerging from Quarantine.”