Master of Arts in Fashion Journalism

Graduate students will meet the following student performance criteria:

Comunicación visual y herramientas digitales

• Apply basic design principles to creative work
• Work effectively with industry-standard software

Comunicación verbal y escrita

• Escribir material atractivo para medios impresos, en línea o de radiodifusión.
• Transmitir claramente ideas y conceptos utilizando un lenguaje específico de la industria de la moda.
• Presentar ideas de manera efectiva
• Conduct effective interviews
• Desarrollar una voz personal y la capacidad de adaptar la voz para adaptarse a una variedad de publicaciones impresas/en línea.

Investigación y desarrollo de conceptos

• Realizar investigaciones en profundidad para desarrollar material para medios impresos, en línea o de radiodifusión.
• Demostrar capacidad para realizar "paquetes" editoriales, combinando varias características periodísticas.

Redes sociales y blogs

• Publicar, compartir y promover historias para audiencias objetivo en las redes sociales.
• Conceptualizar, producir y empaquetar contenido en los canales de redes sociales.

Collaborative Skills

• Collaborate effectively to produce creative projects

Professional Practices

• Create a relevant and original portfolio and collateral materials that can be used to market themselves to the industry

Academy of Art University Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the Academy of Art University will demonstrate the ability to:

• Produce a body of work suitable for seeking professional opportunities in their chosen field of art and design.
• Solve creative problems within their field of art and design, including research and synthesis of technical, aesthetic, and conceptual knowledge.
• Communicate their ideas professionally and connect with their intended audience using visual, oral, and written presentation skills relevant to their field.
• Execute technical, aesthetic, and conceptual decisions based on an understanding of art and design principles.
• Evaluate work in their field, including their own work, using professional terminology.
• Recognize the influence of major cultural and aesthetic trends, both historical and contemporary, on art and design products.
• Learn the professional skills and behaviors necessary to compete in the global marketplace for art and design.

Academy of Art University offers some of the best training and hands-on experience to help accelerate your career. We pride ourselves in doing an exceptional job preparing you to excel in your future fashion careers. Our degree programs are designed to equip aspiring fashion professionals with a comprehensive toolbox of marketable skills that lead to success in the fashion industry.

Fashion Designer

Based on your conceptual vision, your grasp of fashion direction, and your ability to anticipate designs that will appeal to consumers, you will transform your fashion inspirations into original collections of clothing. Sketch, select colors and fabrics, and give direction to make the products you design.

Design Director

Oversee trends, color, and fabric direction for upcoming seasons across all product lines as a design director for a fashion label. You will manage design teams, oversee manufacturing and marketing, and set the direction for a brand voice to create the future of fashion.

Executive Editor

Responsible for overseeing, planning, and directing all editorial content, the executive editor is the voice of any fashion publication. You will develop budgets, manage staff and contractors, oversee quality control, and innovate in the print and digital spaces in this fast-paced industry.

Fashion Editor

Supervise the process of creating, developing, and presenting content for a fashion magazine as a fashion editor. You will supervise teams, conceptualize, and style photo shoots, curate photography, research industry trends, and choose items for publication in this fast-paced and exciting career.

Patternmaker

Turn a designer’s vision into a finished garment as a pattern maker. You will break down garment designs into workable patterns, transfer them onto fabric, and create the design blueprints for manufacturing.

Stylist

As a fashion stylist, you will provide on-set art direction for editorial and catalog fashion shoots and support merchandising strategy with the brand and theme-based shoots.

Knitwear Designer

You will create ideas for a range of products, including sweaters, cardigans, knit jackets and coats, knit dresses, and knit accessories. A wide variety of environments will be open to you - from retail brands to boutiques to freelancing and you will work with apparel manufacturers to create men's, women's, and children's fashions for the mass market.

Textile Designer

You will research, draw, and design seasonal prints for fashion, interiors, and other surfaces using both hand-drawing and computer skills. Design repeat patterns and graphic prints for the home and apparel. Create and inspire the next wave of textile designs.

Visual Merchandising Director

As a visual merchandising director, you will help promote the image, products, and services of retail and wholesale businesses. You’ll create eye-catching displays using visual and graphic elements and organize brand-related special events.

Unit Requirements

Degree Requirements

• Successful completion of Final Portfolio Review
• Una calificación mínima de C en todas las 42 unidades requeridas.
• Minimum 2.0 cumulative GPA and the following Academic Study requirements:
  • 1 Art Historical Awareness & Aesthetic course

Curriculum

Semester 1

• FSH 617: Fundamentos del periodismo de moda (especialidad)
• FSH 619: Desarrollos y debates actuales en el periodismo de moda (principal)
• GLA 613: Moda, Artes e Influencia (Graduado en Artes Liberales)

Semester 2

• COM 602: Narración visual: edición de contenido de vídeo de formato corto (especialidad)
• FSH 627: Investigación e informes de moda (especialidad)
• FSH 628: Periodismo móvil y de redes sociales (especialidad)
• FSH 629: Estilismo de moda (especialidad)
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• FSH 630: Estrategia de marketing de moda (especialidad)
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Semester 3

• FSH 626: Publicación de revistas impresas y digitales (principal)
• FSH 700: Prácticas profesionales y portafolio de moda (especialidad)
• FSH 800: Estudio Dirigido (Estudios Dirigidos)

Semester 4

• FSH 648: Sostenibilidad y Sociedad (Optativa)
• FSH 800: Estudio Dirigido (Estudios Dirigidos)
• FSH 900: Prácticas: para Periodismo de Moda (Optativa)