• HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES CAMPUS(SEOUL)
  #62802, Suseon Hall
• 82-2-760-0515

As a professional fashion education institute, the Department of Fashion Design aims at cultivating specialization, professionalism, and originality among its students. The Department of Fashion Design differentiates itself from other universities by combining specific majors and advanced courses. By doing this, design education is strengthened by relation to product power. The curriculum with theoretical and practical aspects in balance fosters student talent and produce individuals who can actively cope with various environments. It also encourages enrolled students to improve their design ability and to become skilled professionals in the international fashion industry. Graduates are able to continue on to careers as fashion designers, MDs, curators in museums, fashion editors, consultants, sourcing and buying professionals and scholars.

There are over 250 undergraduate and 60 graduate students in the department. Students in the Department of Fashion Design can study in five fields; Fashion History, Design, Fashion Material & Fashion Environment, Dress Composition, and Fashion Marketing & Consumer Psychology. For Master's and Doctoral degrees, the curriculum is divided into four fields: Design, Fashion History, Dress Composition, and Fashion Marketing.

Courses & Curriculums

The curriculum is designed to cultivate fashion professionals who will lead the global fashion industry in the 21st century and is divided into 5 areas:

• Fashion design to produce competitive fashion products
• Clothing organization for making designed products into real products and mass production
• Production of ready-made clothes
• History of costume to study changes in western costume and Korean costume
• Fashion marketing area to understand the fashion marketing environment, fashion distributors, and consumer behaviors required for fashion materials and product planning

In particular, since the fashion industry needs professionals with theoretical and practical skills, the department has faculty members with academic foundations and practical experience.

Why choose us?

The fashion program at SKKU focuses on encouraging students to become active learners through diverse learning experiences including personally designed programs of study, study abroad, and internship opportunities.

Courses in the program provide scientific, technical, and humanistic knowledge with creative approaches in apparel and textiles. To complete the program, students combine general education and major classes including history of costume, merchandising‧marketing, creative design, apparel pattern making and production, and/or textiles. Students are encouraged to perform a cooperative internship in the textiles and apparel industry. As for a senior project, students conceptualize and develop a group fashion collection.