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Fashion Merchandising/Interior Design Concentration

The fields of fashion merchandising and interior design share a common base of knowledge grounded in family and consumer sciences and business. A background in apparel construction and design, merchandising marketing, and market analysis prepares you for careers in fashion merchandising. Residential architecture, kitchen and bath planning, and a variety of interior design classes prepare students for positions as interior designers.

Career opportunities include:

• Merchandise buying
• Design display
• Entrepreneurship
• Apparel design
• Textile design
• Fashion analysis
• Interior design
• Housing and home planning
• Kitchen and bath design
• Equipment promotion demonstration
• Energy conservation management in the home
• Furniture sales
• Business management and administration

A field experience or internship in the Portland metropolitan area puts you in the workplace before graduation, giving you valuable business experience.

The following courses, totaling 44 semester hours, are required for a concentration in fashion merchandising and interior design:

FCS 120 Apparel Construction
FCS 220 Fashion and Society
FCS 230 Textiles Science
FCS 250 Residential Technology
FCS 320 Fashion Merchandising
FCS 330 Residential Architecture
FCS 350 Resource Management
FCS 351 Interior Design I
FCS 360 Consumer Buying
FCS 370 Pattern Drafting and Apparel Design
FCS 475 Field Experience
FCS 490 Senior Seminar
BUS 110 Introduction to Business
*Either* BUS 300 Management *or* BUS 340 Marketing

Take two of the following four classes:

FCS 352 Interior Design II
FCS 353 Interior CAD
FCS 378 Apparel CAD
FCS 460 Apparel Market Analysis

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