Fashion Industry Studies - M.F.I.S.
Kent State University
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Campus location
Kent, USA
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On-Campus
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Pace
Full time
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Introduction
Fashion Industry Studies - M.F.I.S.
The Master of Fashion Industry Studies degree in Fashion Industry Studies robustly addresses the highly interdisciplinary character of practice within fashion as a product-driven industry with a unique set of parameters that transverse many traditional academic boundaries.
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 degree program prepares professionals who intentionally use cross-disciplinary and applied research methods to address complex issues derived from the industry setting and provide impactful research-based solutions for the fashion industry.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please visit the university's website for more information.
Curriculum
Major requirements
- The Fashion Industry: a Unifying Lens
- Forms of Inquiry in the Fashion Industry
- Fashion Industry Practicum
- Advanced Fashion Industry Practice
- Thesis I
Fashion Electives, choose from the following:
- Historic Textiles
- Theories as Applied to the Fashion Industry
- Fashion Industry Design Management
- Techstylelab: Digital Design and New Media in the Fashion Industry
- Workshops on Current Topics in the Fashion Industry
- Research Project in Fashion Industry
- Advanced Fashion Industry Design and Production
- Visual Presentation in the Fashion Industry
- Sustainable Concepts and Practices in the Fashion Industry
- Fashion Industry Merchandise Management
- Entrepreneurial Leadership and Sustainability in the Fashion Industry
- Supply Chain Management in the Fashion Industry
- Fashion Industry Special Topics
- Individual Investigation in the Fashion Industry
Program Outcome
Graduates of this program will be able to:
- Demonstrate a capacity for critical analysis of the fashion industry supply chain from fiber to the consumer to identify pertinent issues.
- Demonstrate the ability to utilize cross-disciplinary and applied research methods with appropriate knowledge and technologies.
- Demonstrate the critical generation of pragmatic solutions based on testing and experimentation that connect research findings to fashion industry issues.
- Demonstrate abilities to effectively synthesize and present innovative and pragmatic research-based solutions applicable to the fashion industry.