If you desire a career in the fashion industry, whether it is in buying, product design, or marketing, the Fashion Merchandising concentration is for you!

Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
Degree:Family and Consumer Sciences
Concentration: Interior Design/Fashion Merchandising
Option: Fashion Merchandising

The fashion merchandising option offers you an opportunity to explore many facets of the apparel industry from the production of fabrics to the marketing of the final garment. Through our course offerings you will learn:

+ Fashion Buying
+ Visual Merchandising
+ Fashion Design
+ Current Fashion Trends
+ Fashion History
+ Fashion Promotion

Our program gives you an opportunity to shape your course of study to meet your specific goals. An individualized focus, planned through advising, gives you the basis for meeting your goals. The supervised field experience offers on-the-job professional training in your area of interest.

Career Opportunities

For those seeking a career in fashion merchandising, the opportunities are limitless.

For more information about Fashion merchandising, click here.

For more information contact:

Dr. Joey Mehlhorn, Interim Chair
Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
The University of Tennessee at Martin
340 Gooch Hall
Martin, TN 38238-5045
(731) 881-7102

mehlhorn@utm.edu

or

Dr. Sue Byrd, Professor
Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
The University of Tennessee at Martin
330F Gooch Hall
Martin, TN 38238-5045
(731) 881-7103
sbyrd@utm.edu