Course Syllabi

Introduction to the genres and techniques of fashion styling. Identify the needs and vision of the clients. Help designers and brands tell their stories. Developing concept drawings from cultural references and assembling compelling outfits to create fashion imagery. Putting the foundations of personal, product, and editorial styling into practice.

This course will provide foundational knowledge for image consulting and the various avenues within the industry, client relations and consulting, foundational understanding of the industry, designers, and services. Through course instruction, students will also gain familiarity with body types and facial characteristics as they relate to clothing and beauty services.

Learn to conduct a brand audit to identify the brand's pillars, tone, imagery, and personality to create a clear brand voice for social media. Discern how to put those ideas into practice for an effective social media strategy.

This course will examine social media platforms, publisher tools, and personal branding and marketing agencies. Evaluation of brand-driven marketing and communication strategy.

Discern how to quantify consumer sentiment on fashion apparel before implementing financial strategies to maximize revenue and margin.

This course will allow students with a sufficient academic background who wish to investigate and/or expand their knowledge of the fashion industry in an international environment and receive a global perspective on industry practices and methods. This learning experience is designed to allow students opportunities such as but not limited to taking courses at other institutions, internships, or independent studies.

This course provides a foundation for the understanding of equity and fixed income investments, risk and return, behavior finance, time value of money, the markets, and the role individuals and institutions transact within the realm of the investment environment.

This course provides a foundation for the novice investor in the understanding of mutual fund concepts and terminology, portfolio composition of mutual funds, portfolio risk and return, mutual funds trading, short-term money market instruments, exchange traded funds, expense ratios, taxation of mutual funds in qualified and unqualified plans, mutual fund research, and financial planning with mutual funds.

Financial markets and institutions provide a practical introduction to prepare students for today's changing landscape of financial markets and institutions. Students will develop critical-thinking and problem-solving skills necessary to respond to challenging situations in their future careers within the financial industry.

This course provides a working knowledge and in-depth analysis of personal finance. The topics covered include managing cash, maintain good credit, utilizing tools in the financial planning process, engaging in personal loans, protecting wealth, investing for personal growth and retirement and estate planning.

Information and tools necessary to understand the requirements lenders and investors use to determine eligibility for granting commercial and consumer loans.

Financial statement analysis emphasizes effective business analysis and decision making by analysts, investors, managers, and other stakeholders of the company. The course presents a balanced view of analysis, including both equity and credit analysis, and both cash-based and earnings-based valuation models.

Provides instruction in the principles and practices of tile flooring installation. Emphasis is placed on the
acquisition of knowledge and skills in the areas of safety, tools, substrate prep, layout, tile cutting, mortar
and grout application. A modeled real world lab environment is utilized to reinforce and apply learned
skills and techniques.

This course introduces students to the types of flooring and installation procedures used in the resilient flooring processes. Topics covered include resilient flooring types, moisture identification, cutting, adhesives and grout, dead zone and floating floors, and measuring and estimating.

Basic communication skills with emphasis on oral communication and pronunciation. Grammar is taught only as it will facilitate conversation.

A continuation of FRE 95. Basic communication skills with emphasis on pra; communication. Grammar is taught only as it will facilitate conversation.

Basic communication skills with emphasis on oral skills and elementary grammar. Students are exposed to the culture and traditions of the French speaking countries. Fulfills the first-semester foreign language requirement at most four-year institutions.

A continuation of FRE 101. Basic communication skills with emphasis on oral skills and elementary grammar. Fulfills the second semester foreign language requirement at most four-year institutions.

A continuation of FRE 102 with emphasis on oral communication. Listening and reading comprehension, with writing exercises, are integrated to develop and reinforce intermediate speaking skills. Modern-day topics for discussion provide a conversational approach to learning French. Fulfills the third semester foreign language requirement at most four-year institutions.

A continuation of FRE 201 with emphasis on oral communication. It provides a practice of French in a communicative context through reading selections. Writing exercises provide a review of a grammar. Fulfills the fourth semester foreign language requirement at most four-year institutions.