Costume Construction I

Catalog description

This is a foundation course for all other courses in Costume Design and Costume Technology. The techniques the student learns in this course will become the building blocks for all other courses in the area of study. The course provides an opportunity for hands-on practice of standard costume-construction methods. The primary objective of this course is to help the student develop basic skills, theory, and practice of costume construction, through creative application of skills learned in the course. Students will prepare a sample resource binder of projects completed and be evaluated on thoroughness and accuracy. The resource binder will be used in the implementation of the students' final grade.