The Fashion Studies Bachelor of Science degree program prepares students to enter the trillion dollar global fashion industry. The program is focused on the business world of fashion, although courses in design, color and denim, are some design-related courses that are offered as well.
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Today we know that in an industry featuring fast fashion made abroad, not every worker shares in the post-pandemic fashion economy. Even workers at home, employed in retail and manufacturing, often have low wages and little chance of advancement. St. John’s University, as a significant Catholic Vincentian university, chose with this major to focus on ways in which the economic success of the industry may be shared with all those who create it. College students especially have a role to play in this, examining the lives and contributions of workers in other countries. This makes the St. John’s Fashion Studies program unique to other programs, in trying to make the industry more responsive to all who support it.
In addition to exciting major courses in law, management, marketing, economics and more, all fashion-centered, the program offers a creativity and entrepreneurship focus. Many students today are interested in starting fashion and beauty businesses online. Students also may volunteer as interns at fashion shows, or enroll in semester-long credit internships in New York City, a major world center of fashion.
The Fashion Studies major is combined with a strong University liberal arts core, and many elective course opportunities. Students are prepared well by the program for advanced study in areas such as business, fashion or law.
The business, ethics and sustainability; the Vincentian mission which allows for academic service learning in classes, study abroad, and the attention in business fashion classes with the need to improve the lives of workers globally and at home; emphasis on reducing harm to the environment of fast fashion and of excess fashion creating waste and environmental issues and more. Also emphasis on fashion student entrepreneurship.
Overseeing Fashion Studies is a Chair and a Coordinating Committee of faculty in the division to ensure varied expert perspectives monitor and support the program’s growth and relevance.
In addition to faculty listed, a new faculty member is Assistant Professor Emma McClendon, a fashion historian, curator, and author based in New York City. She was formerly the Associate Curator of Costume at The Museum at FIT from 2011-2020, and is co-author of Denim: Fashion’s Frontier, published by Yale University Press and other fashion books.
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