Program: Fashion Design and Merchandising (BS)
Degree: Bachelor's
Date: Mon Sep 28, 2020 - 4:01:16 pm
1) Program Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) and Institutional Learning Objectives (ILOs)
1. Industry Processes: Outcome 1: The student can integrate knowledge of industry operations, theories of consumer behavior and quantitative skills to prepare comprehensive research-based manufacturing and merchandising plans that include creative design components and typical industry documents based on quantitative data.
(1b. Specialized study in an academic field, 1c. Understand Hawaiian culture and history, 2a. Think critically and creatively, 2b. Conduct research)
2. Industry Processes: Outcome 2: The student can conduct evaluations of apparel product quality using industry standards, regulatory agency criteria, and appropriate industry terminology.
(1b. Specialized study in an academic field, 2a. Think critically and creatively)
3. Industry Processes: Outcome 3: The student can conduct professional ASTM or AATCC industry tests for textile performance.
(1b. Specialized study in an academic field, 2b. Conduct research, 3a. Continuous learning and personal growth)
4. Industry Processes: Outcome 4: The student can discuss current issues and concerns in the textile and apparel industries, including global issues regarding labor conditions, social responsibility and environmental impacts, and can evaluate the social and ethical consequences of these.
(2b. Conduct research, 3a. Continuous learning and personal growth)
5. Appearance and Human Behavior: Outcome 5: The student can conduct, interpret, and present the results of research that integrates historic and socio-cultural data with knowledge of the role of dress in human behavior.
(1a. General education, 1b. Specialized study in an academic field, 1c. Understand Hawaiian culture and history, 3a. Continuous learning and personal growth, 3b. Respect for people and cultures, in particular Hawaiian culture, 3d. Civic participation)
6. Aesthetics and the Design Process: Outcome 6: The student can conduct systematic assessments of the use and significance of design elements and other aesthetic factors in fashion-related products and personal appearances, and in industry promotion and image-related materials.
(1b. Specialized study in an academic field, 2a. Think critically and creatively, 2b. Conduct research, 3a. Continuous learning and personal growth)
7. Global Interdependence: Outcome 7: The student can integrate current political, cultural, and economic data with economic theories, practices and policies to produce research-based reports on international trade conditions and practices.
(1a. General education, 1b. Specialized study in an academic field, 2b. Conduct research)
8. Critical and Creative Thinking: Outcome #8: The student can distinguish between professional and unprofessional behaviors and can describe and critique ethical and unethical industry practices.
(1a. General education, 1b. Specialized study in an academic field, 3b. Respect for people and cultures, in particular Hawaiian culture)
9. Professional Development: Outcome #9: The student can employ critical thinking, creativity, and technical skill mastery to prepare a substantive pre-employment portfolio appropriate for an emerging industry professional.
(1a. General education, 1b. Specialized study in an academic field, 2a. Think critically and creatively, 2c. Communicate and report, 3a. Continuous learning and personal growth)
2) Your program's SLOs are published as follows. Please update as needed.
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3) Please review, add, replace, or delete the existing curriculum map.
4) For your program, the percentage of courses that have course SLOs explicitly stated on the syllabus, a website, or other publicly available document is as follows. Please update as needed.
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5) Does the program have learning achievement results for its program SLOs? (Example of achievement results: "80% of students met expectations on SLO 1.")(check one):
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6) Did your program engage in any program learning assessment activities between November 1, 2018 and October 31, 2020?
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7) What best describes the program-level learning assessment activities that took place for the period November 1, 2018 and October 31, 2020? (Check all that apply.)
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8) Briefly explain the assessment activities that took place since November 2018.
9) What types of evidence did the program use as part of the assessment activities checked in question 7? (Check all that apply.)
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10) State the number of students (or persons) who submitted evidence that was evaluated. If applicable, please include the sampling technique used.
11) Who interpreted or analyzed the evidence that was collected? (Check all that apply.)
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12) How did they evaluate, analyze, or interpret the evidence? (Check all that apply.)
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13) Summarize the results from the evaluation, analysis, interpretation of evidence (checked in question 12). For example, report the percentage of students who achieved each SLO.
14) What best describes how the program used the results? (Check all that apply.)
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15) Please briefly describe how the program used its findings/results.
16) Beyond the results, were there additional conclusions or discoveries? This can include insights about assessment procedures, teaching and learning, and great achievements regarding program assessment in this reporting period.
17) If the program did not engage in assessment activities, please justify.
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