Programs

CAD for Apparel Products

The Department of Consumer Sciences offers an Apparel Product Development and Evaluation option, which focuses on the development and quality assessment of textile and apparel products in their design and performance. Students apply knowledge from textile science, product design, and other core courses in textiles and apparel, to develop specifications for new products and evaluate the performance of manufactured goods and their components.

Graduates of this program may seek positions in design, technical design, fabric design, quality assurance, color laboratory, distribution, and textile researches.

CAD for Interior Products

The Department of Consumer Sciences offers an Interior Merchandising focus option. This program emphasizes on product knowledge-performance characteristics, selection criteria, and design principles and trends; process skills consumer behavior and business practices; and communication- visualization and interpretation. The curriculum combines product-focused courses with courses in retailing, marketing, management, and accounting.

Interiors merchandising graduates typically find employment in firms specializing in home furnishings products. Firms range from specialty stores to mass merchandisers to catalog distributors. Positions include wholesale/retail manager, buyer trainee, residential designer, and residential interiors/apparel designer entrepreneur.