Spring 2027

Fashion Design I

Fashion Design I introduces core principles of fashion design focusing on creativity, sustainability, critical thinking, and concept development.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.95 GPA, 96.9% A/AB (n=32 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify fundamental fashion design principles, including silhouette, proportion, scale, and materiality, to establish a strong foundation in design aesthetics.

  • Describe and analyze historical and contemporary fashion references to inform their own design development.

  • Conduct fashion trend research and market analysis and develop original fashion concepts through this research, experimentation, and iterative design processes.

  • Create mood and concept boards to communicate design ideas effectively applying visual storytelling techniques.

  • Critique personal work and that of peers using appropriate design vocabulary and constructive feedback.

  • Present design concepts in a professional format and communicate design ideas through fashion flat sketches.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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DS 151

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Spring 2027

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Calendar & sections

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LAB 002Classroom Instruction0 / 160
LAB 003Classroom Instruction0 / 160

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.95 GPA, 96.9% A/AB (n=32 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Core principles of fashion design: creativity, sustainability, critical thinking, concept development
  • Historical and contemporary fashion references
  • Trend forecasting, market analysis, and flat sketching

Skills

  • Trend forecasting, market analysis, and flat sketching
  • Silhouette, proportion, scale, and materiality for design aesthetics
  • Creating mood and concept boards with visual storytelling
  • Critiquing work using design vocabulary and constructive feedback

Grades

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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DS 152 · Spring 2027

Fashion Design I

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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