Department of Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design
Minor in Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design
The TMD Department offers minors. Completion of the right 18 credits
will earn the minor. As with the major, there are several different areas
of TMD in which you can specialize. Listed below are the recommended
courses in each area. You will see that they all begin with TMD 103, our
"introduction" course.
Contact the department at 401 874-4574, or lwelters@uri.edu for more details
Fashion Merchandising
Job opportunities: specialty store manager, assistant buyer
TMD 103 Textile Products
TMD 224 Clothing & Human Behavior
TMD 232 Fashion Retailing
TMD 332 Fashion Merchandise Buying
TMD 432 Fashion Merchandising Operations Control
TMD 442 Fashion Promotion
TMD 452 Consumer Behavior in Fashion Retailing
Interior Design
Job opportunities: interior design, retail sales, contract design
project management, kitchen planner
TMD 103 Textile Products
TMD 226 Interior Design I
TMD 326 Interior Design II
TMD 361 Special Problems
TMD 426 Historic & Contemp Furniture
TMD 440 Historic Textiles
Apparel Studies
Job opportunities: apparel design, apparel production, product
development
TMD 103 Textile Products
TMD 222 Apparel Production
TMD 224 Clothing & Human Behavior
TMD 325 Apparel I
TMD 327 Apparel Design
TMD 335 Apparel II
Textile Science
Job opportunities: quality control, textile technician, product
development
TMD 103 Textile Products
TMD 113 Color Science
TMD 303 Textile Science
TMD 313 Textile Science Laboratory
TMD 403 Textile Performance
TMD 413 Dyeing & Finishing
TMD 503 Topics in Textile Science
TMD 513 Detergency
Cultural Aspects of Textiles and Apparel
Job opportunities: historic house museums, living history museums, art
museums, vintage clothing
TMD 103 Textile Products
TMD 224 Clothing & Human Behavior
TMD 240 Development of Contemporary Fashion
TMD 340 Historic Costume
TMD 440 Historic Textiles
TMD 500 Ethnic Costume and Textiles
TMD 520 Textile Conservation
TMD 524 Cultural Aspects of Dress
TMD 570 Topics: Historic Textiles/Costume
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