Fashion Media, BS

LIM College Core

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Required Courses - 10 Credits

• FASH 1110 - Introduction to the Fashion Business credit(s): 3
• LIMS 1000 - First Year Experience credit(s): 1 or
  LIMS 1020 - College Success for Online Students
    credit(s): 1
• TECH 1310 - Business Spreadsheets credit(s): 3
• MRKT 1550 - Marketing credit(s): 3

General Education Requirements

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Required Courses - 21 Credits

• COMM 1400 - Communicating Across Cultures credit(s): 3
• COMM 2010 - Critical Thinking: Reading, Writing and Research credit(s): 3
• COMM 2025 - Digital Culture in Business and Life credit(s): 3
• ENGL 1100 - English Composition credit(s): 3 or 
  ENGL 1095 - English Composition with Essentials
     credit(s): 3 and 
  ENGL 0795 - Essentials of Composition
    credit(s): 2* or
  ENGL 1060 - English Composition for International Students
    credit(s): 3 or
  ENGL 1055 - English Composition for International Students with Essentials
    credit(s): 3 and
  ENGL 0755 - Essentials of Composition for International Students
    credits(s): 2*
• ENGL 3110 - Global Themes for Writing credit(s): 3
• MATH 1300 - Introduction to Statistics credit(s): 3 or 
  MATH 1295 - Introduction to Statistics with Essentials
    credit(s): 3 and 
  MATH 0595 - Essentials of Introduction to Statistics
    credit(s): 2* 
• MATH 2760 - Applied Data Analysis credit(s): 3

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  * Institutional credits - do not count toward total credit requirement

Career Education & Internship Requirements

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Required Courses - 13 Credits

• CARE 1300 - Internship Prep: Designing Your Career credit(s): 2
• CARE 1620 - Internship 1 credit(s): 2
• CARE 2620 - Internship 2 credit(s): 2
• CARE 4800 - Senior Co-op Prep: Launching Your Career credit(s): 1
• CARE 4820 - Senior Co-op credit(s): 6

Fashion Media Major Requirements

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Required Courses - 33 Credits

• COMM 1500 - Introduction to Mass Media credit(s): 3
• COMM 2328 - New Media: Writing, Editing, Visuals credit(s): 3
• COMM 3328 - Intermediate New Media: Writing, Editing, Visuals credit(s): 3
• COMM 4328 - Advanced New Media: Writing, Editing, Visuals credit(s): 3
• FAME 4960 - Fashion Media Senior Capstone (6CR) credit(s): 6

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  Digital Electives (choose 2):

• FAME 2020 - Creative Computing credit(s): 3
• FAME 3521 - Video Production and Editing credit(s): 3
• VIST 3014 - Digital Photography and Imaging credit(s): 3

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  Media Electives (choose 3):

• ARTS 2220 - Introduction to Film credit(s): 3
• COMM 2603 - Global Media credit(s): 3
• COMM 3411 - The New Journalism credit(s): 3
• MRKT 2714 - Integrated Marketing Communications credit(s): 3
• SOCI 2217 - Critical Theories of Fashion and Culture credit(s): 3

Liberal Arts & Sciences Electives

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30 Credits

Liberal Arts Electives are any non-remedial courses offered by the Arts & Sciences department with the following prefixes:  COMM, ECON, ENGL, ARTS, HIST, LANG, MATH, NTSC, PHIL, POLS, PSYC, and SOCI plus INTD 2511 , not specifically required for a major and vary depending upon major course requirements.

General Electives

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15 Credits

General Electives are any courses numbered 1000 or higher (except CARE 1890 - Micro-Internship (Optional)) which are not specifically required for the student’s degree program.

Notes:

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• All courses are required except where choice is indicated.
• First Year Experience or College Success for Online Students is required for all first-time freshmen or students who have transferred in fewer than 13 credits.
• For BS, BBA and BPS degree students, a minimum of 36 credits must be completed at LIM College.
• All students are required to take CARE 1300 - Internship Prep: Designing your Career
• Students who do not have prior retail experience or do not meet the qualifications listed below are also required to complete CARE 1620 - Internship I prior to graduation.
  • Students who have 24 or more credits and at least 1,000 hours of retail or corporate experience within the past five years can qualify out of CARE 1620 and take another course to replace those credits.
  • Students who have fewer than 24 credits and at least 2,000 hours of retail or corporate experience within the past five years and can qualify out of CARE 1620 and take another course to replace those credits.

Verifiable proof of retail or corporate experience will be required. Students must submit a resume with one of the following:

• Signed letter from their employer(s) on company letterhead verifying hours worked and overview of responsibilities
• W2 with a corresponding paystub from the W2 year
• Pay stub

Students are encouraged to submit all retail experience accrued from multiple employers, if applicable.

English and Mathematics Placement

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All undergraduate students who enroll at LIM College are assessed in the areas of writing and mathematics to ensure they receive adequate support while completing required coursework*.

Students are assessed by either:

• Submitting ACT or SAT scores for review
• Completing the LIM College placement tests

In addition, college-level English composition and mathematics courses will be reviewed for equivalency and used when determining placement test requirements.

Students will be placed based on any of the above submissions. If multiple submissions are made, LIM College will use the placement criteria that demonstrates the highest level of proficiency. Students who choose not to submit ACT/SAT scores and who do not take the LIM College placement test will automatically be placed into corequisite developmental courses in Writing and Statistics.

Corequisite developmental education courses do not carry credit towards the degree, but do carry hours which count towards full-time status. See Undergraduate Credits and Hours  for further information. 

*Students accepted into the Fashion Scholars program are qualified out of developmental education course work.

Minors*

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LIM College offers the following minors** for each major, which are intended to provide an additional focused area of study:

FASHION MEDIA MINOR:

  

FASHION MERCHANDISING MINORS:

   
 
 
 
  (for Non-Fashion Merchandising Majors)
RETAIL BUYING AND PLANNING  (for Fashion Merchandising Majors)
  

LIBERAL ARTS MINORS:

   
 
   
  

MARKETING, MANAGEMENT, AND FINANCE MINORS:

  
 
 
  

VISUAL STUDIES MINORS:

  
   
  
 
  

Not all courses are offered every semester.

Note that the LIM College Diploma will not display minors (only degree and program will be displayed). However, minors will be shown on the LIM College transcript.

* Not available online.

**Students must take two of the five courses required for the minor at LIM College in order to declare a minor at LIM College (students may transfer in a maximum of three courses into a minor). There is no limit to the number of minors that students can declare. Students may use the same course to qualify for multiple minors. Students are limited to applying one required course as part of their minor.  Exceptions are made at the discretion of each department chair.

Fashion Scholars*

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All Fashion Scholars are required to complete the following:

All Fashion Scholars are required to complete a minimum of 21 credits at the honors level, achieving a minimum final grade of B in each course (substituting for the non-honors equivalent). The 21 honors credits include:

• MATH 2760H - Honors Applied Data Analysis credit(s): 3

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  For the remainder of the credits, students can choose from the following:

   

• ACCT 2700H - Honors Accounting credit(s): 3
• BUSN 3310H - Honors Business Law credit(s): 3
• COMM 1400H - Honors Communicating Across Cultures credit(s): 3
• COMM 2010H - Honors Critical Thinking: Reading, Writing and Research credit(s): 3
• COMM 2025H - Honors Digital Culture in Business and Life credit(s): 3
• ECON 2100H - Honors Economics credit(s): 3
• ENGL 3110H - Honors Global Themes for Writing credit(s): 3
• FASH 1110H - Honors Introduction to the Fashion Business credit(s): 3
• FNCE 3410H - Honors Finance credit(s): 3
• LIMS 1000H - Honors First Year Experience Seminar credit(s): 1
• MATH 1300H - Honors Introduction to Statistics credit(s): 3
• MNGT 2310H - Honors Management credit(s): 3
• MRKT 1550H - Honors Marketing credit(s): 3

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  Students accepted into the Fashion Scholars program are qualified out of all developmental education course work.
  
  *Not available online.

Global Pathway to Fashion Program

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Students enrolled in the Global Pathway to Fashion Program will complete the following:

• Level 3A
   

• FASH 1110 - Introduction to the Fashion Business credit(s): 3
• PATH 030A - The Language of Business and Fashion I credit(s): 9
• PATH 0410 - Undergraduate Support Lab credit(s): 3
• PATH 0490 - Undergraduate Pathway Special Topics credit(s): 3

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  Level 3B

   

• MRKT 1550 - Marketing credit(s): 3
• PATH 030B - The Language of Business and Fashion II credit(s): 9
• PATH 0410 - Undergraduate Support Lab
    credit(s): 3
• PATH 0490 - Undergraduate Pathway Special Topics
    credit(s): 3

In order to proceed to the next level and/or complete the program, students must earn a Global Pathways GPA of 2.00 or better.

PATH course credits are institutional credits - they do not count towards total degree program credit requirement.