Course Overview
We help you craft your graduate research program based on your interests and goals to address significant issues of apparel design within the context of aesthetics, production, function, and the meanings of dress. The apparel design faculty has research and industry-based expertise from design conception through production and analysis. The fiber science faculty offer supporting courses in fabric structure, color, and functional characteristics for apparel students and contributes technical expertise to thesis/dissertation research. You will work with your a professor with whom your research interests align and take courses with other department faculty and in other fields of study related to your thesis/dissertation research.