This course is an introduction to the business of small and medium sized fashion enterprises. It examines management principles in relation to freelancing, owner-operator ventures and client/vendor relationships. Topics include organizational structures, human resource management, government regulations, raising capital, and crafting business plans. Assessment comprises of individual and group projects focused on the analysis of case studies.Weekly Contact:Lecture 2 hrs. Lab 1 hr.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Custom Requisites:Available only to Creative Industries, Fashion, Fashion Communication and Fashion Design students.FDL 150 - Fashion Project ManagementCourse DescriptionThis course introduces students to the fundamentals of project management, and the tools and techniques used to successfully execute projects of different types and sizes within the fashion industry. Topics covered include planning, scheduling, and estimating; decision making and approval processes; quality control systems; resources and personnel selection and allocation, and post-project evaluation. Assessment is comprised of individual and group projects and includes the development of a management plan for a fashion event or fashion product. Lecture Format.Weekly Contact:Lecture 2 hrs. Lab 1 hr.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Custom Requisites:Available only to Creative Industries, Fashion, Fashion Communication and Fashion Design students.FDL 240 - New Fashion Business ModelsCourse DescriptionThis course examines frameworks for developing, visualizing and evaluating models in the fashion industry. It fosters students' capacities to develop strategies by analyzing fast fashion, luxury fashion, and sustainable fashion business models, among others. Particular attention is given to ways in which technological and social changes are transforming the fashion business, and to the development of business modelling skills to respond to them.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:CRI 400 or FSN 105 or FSN 123 or FSN 199FDL 340 - Strategic Communications in FashionCourse DescriptionThis course examines the principles and applications of communications in the fashion industry. Students explore topics including traditional and social media platforms, public and media relations, strategic messaging, and advocacy. They also develop an understanding of the stakeholders in fashion communications and strategies to collaborate with them. Assessment comprises of individual and group projects, including the analysis of case studies and the development of a fashion-focused media campaign.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:CRI 400 or FSN 105 or FSN 123 or FSN 199FDL 540 - Strategic Leadership in FashionCourse DescriptionThis course explores leadership theories as they apply to for-profit, non-profit, and social advocacy organizations in the fashion industry. Students examine the roles of strategizing, decision-making and influencing when building and leading teams in the fashion system. Case studies and guest speakers provide practical applications of issues under study. Assessment comprises of individual and group projects, including a critical analysis of leadership styles in the fashion industry.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:FDL 240 or FDL 340FDL 610 - Ethical and Sustainable Fashion LeadershipCourse DescriptionThis course provides a critical overview of key developments and theories addressing the need for social and environmental reform in the fashion industry. Students will learn about a variety of theoretical and practical approaches to address a range of destructive environmental and social impacts of current industry practices, from production to disposal. The course will highlight sustainable business models used by large organizations as well as micro and small enterprises (MSEs). It will also assess current materials and sustainable alternatives, concepts of circularity, consumer behaviours, branding and the reverse supply chain. Using scholarly as well as practice-based approaches, the course will provide students with key leadership skills to both critique and transform current industry practices to ensure a more ethical and sustainable future.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:FDL 140 or FDL 150FDL 620 - Special Topics in Design LeadershipCourse DescriptionThis seminar course provides students with a unique opportunity to experience design leadership theory and research in action. The content and approach changes each time it is offered. Topics include industry, community-based and hybrid approaches to the study of design leadership in the fashion industry. Please contact the instructor for further information about the seminar theme in any given year.Weekly Contact:Lab 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:FSN 303FDL 640 - Fashion FuturesCourse DescriptionThis course examines futures frameworks and methods of foresight. By imagining a variety of future scenarios in fashion, students analyze and strategize how to respond to changing economic, political, environmental, technological and social conditions. Students learn how to predict future contexts and define roadmaps to address them through methods including environmental scanning and medium-to long-range scenarios. Assessment includes individual and group projects, including the development of future scenarios and respective solutions to a self-identified problem in fashion.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:FDL 240 or FDL 340FDL 850 - Social Innovation in FashionCourse DescriptionThis course develops students’ competencies to create innovative fashion projects and ventures that have a positive social impact on local and global communities. Students explore disruptive capitalist frameworks and business models as well as strategies to uncover social problems and develop solutions, including co-design and the half double methodology. Particular focus is placed on the power of fashion to foster social change. Assessment comprises individual and group projects, including the development of an original social project or venture that uses fashion to help solve a societal problem.Weekly
This course is an introduction to the business of small and medium sized fashion enterprises. It examines management principles in relation to freelancing, owner-operator ventures and client/vendor relationships. Topics include organizational structures, human resource management, government regulations, raising capital, and crafting business plans. Assessment comprises of individual and group projects focused on the analysis of case studies.Weekly Contact:Lecture 2 hrs. Lab 1 hr.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Custom Requisites:Available only to Creative Industries, Fashion, Fashion Communication and Fashion Design students.FDL 150 - Fashion Project ManagementCourse DescriptionThis course introduces students to the fundamentals of project management, and the tools and techniques used to successfully execute projects of different types and sizes within the fashion industry. Topics covered include planning, scheduling, and estimating; decision making and approval processes; quality control systems; resources and personnel selection and allocation, and post-project evaluation. Assessment is comprised of individual and group projects and includes the development of a management plan for a fashion event or fashion product. Lecture Format.Weekly Contact:Lecture 2 hrs. Lab 1 hr.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Custom Requisites:Available only to Creative Industries, Fashion, Fashion Communication and Fashion Design students.FDL 240 - New Fashion Business ModelsCourse DescriptionThis course examines frameworks for developing, visualizing and evaluating models in the fashion industry. It fosters students' capacities to develop strategies by analyzing fast fashion, luxury fashion, and sustainable fashion business models, among others. Particular attention is given to ways in which technological and social changes are transforming the fashion business, and to the development of business modelling skills to respond to them.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:CRI 400 or FSN 105 or FSN 123 or FSN 199FDL 340 - Strategic Communications in FashionCourse DescriptionThis course examines the principles and applications of communications in the fashion industry. Students explore topics including traditional and social media platforms, public and media relations, strategic messaging, and advocacy. They also develop an understanding of the stakeholders in fashion communications and strategies to collaborate with them. Assessment comprises of individual and group projects, including the analysis of case studies and the development of a fashion-focused media campaign.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:CRI 400 or FSN 105 or FSN 123 or FSN 199FDL 540 - Strategic Leadership in FashionCourse DescriptionThis course explores leadership theories as they apply to for-profit, non-profit, and social advocacy organizations in the fashion industry. Students examine the roles of strategizing, decision-making and influencing when building and leading teams in the fashion system. Case studies and guest speakers provide practical applications of issues under study. Assessment comprises of individual and group projects, including a critical analysis of leadership styles in the fashion industry.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:FDL 240 or FDL 340FDL 610 - Ethical and Sustainable Fashion LeadershipCourse DescriptionThis course provides a critical overview of key developments and theories addressing the need for social and environmental reform in the fashion industry. Students will learn about a variety of theoretical and practical approaches to address a range of destructive environmental and social impacts of current industry practices, from production to disposal. The course will highlight sustainable business models used by large organizations as well as micro and small enterprises (MSEs). It will also assess current materials and sustainable alternatives, concepts of circularity, consumer behaviours, branding and the reverse supply chain. Using scholarly as well as practice-based approaches, the course will provide students with key leadership skills to both critique and transform current industry practices to ensure a more ethical and sustainable future.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:FDL 140 or FDL 150FDL 620 - Special Topics in Design LeadershipCourse DescriptionThis seminar course provides students with a unique opportunity to experience design leadership theory and research in action. The content and approach changes each time it is offered. Topics include industry, community-based and hybrid approaches to the study of design leadership in the fashion industry. Please contact the instructor for further information about the seminar theme in any given year.Weekly Contact:Lab 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:FSN 303FDL 640 - Fashion FuturesCourse DescriptionThis course examines futures frameworks and methods of foresight. By imagining a variety of future scenarios in fashion, students analyze and strategize how to respond to changing economic, political, environmental, technological and social conditions. Students learn how to predict future contexts and define roadmaps to address them through methods including environmental scanning and medium-to long-range scenarios. Assessment includes individual and group projects, including the development of future scenarios and respective solutions to a self-identified problem in fashion.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:FDL 240 or FDL 340FDL 850 - Social Innovation in FashionCourse DescriptionThis course develops students’ competencies to create innovative fashion projects and ventures that have a positive social impact on local and global communities. Students explore disruptive capitalist frameworks and business models as well as strategies to uncover social problems and develop solutions, including co-design and the half double methodology. Particular focus is placed on the power of fashion to foster social change. Assessment comprises individual and group projects, including the development of an original social project or venture that uses fashion to help solve a societal problem.Weekly
