Fashion Merchandising Learning Goals and Outcomes

Ethics, Social Responsibility, and Sustainability: Students will be able to identify and evaluate issues of social responsibility, environmental sustainability, and ethics related to the impact of individual, organizational, and corporate decision making and fashion industry activities
Professional Development: Students will be able to function as productive members and leaders within professional and culturally diverse environments.
Aesthetics and Creative Thinking: Students will be able to understand and apply knowledge about aesthetics and the design process in relation to fashion, dress, and appearance management.
Critical Thinking: Students will be able to demonstrate critical thinking skills, including the ability to critically evaluate and compare diverse perspectives.
Industry Processes and Global Interdependence: Students will be able to understand global interdependence and how dynamic and diverse political, cultural, and economic systems impact the fashion industry.

Students will evaluate issues of social responsibility, environmental sustainability, and ethics related to the impact of individual, organizational, and corporate decision-making, and fashion industry activities.
Students will demonstrate the dispositions associated with being productive members within professional and culturally diverse learning environments.
Students will incorporate aesthetics and creative thinking principles in relation to fashion, dress, and appearance management.
Students will critically evaluate diverse perspectives.
Students will describe how global interdependence impacts the fashion industry.