Calendar Fall Semester 1977-78 1978-79 1979-80 Faculty conferences 8/23 8/24 8/28 and registration Freshmen orientation 8/24, 8/25, 8/25, 8/27, 8/29, 8/30, and registration 8/26 8/28, 8/29 8/31 Faculty planning day 8/29 8/30 914 First day of classes 8/30 8/31 915 College closed- 915 914 913 Labor Day College closed- 9/13, 9/14 10/2, 10/3 Rosh Hashanah College closed- 9/22 10/11 10/1 Yorn Kippur College closed- 10/24 Veterans' Day College closed- 11/8 Election Day Designated classes 11 /14 11 /13 11 /19 start co-op College closed- 11/24, 11/25 11/23, 11/24 11/22, 11/23 Thanksgiving recess Last day of classes 12/15 12/14 12/14 Final examination 12/16, 12/19, 12/15, 12/18, 12/17, 12/18, period 12/20, 12/21, 12/19, 12/20, 12/19, 12/20, 12/22 12/21 12/21 Note: Monday Note: Monday Note: Monday classes Will classes will classes will be held on be held on be held on Wed., 10/26. Thurs., 10/5. Wed., 10/3. Spring Semester 1977-78 1978-79 1979-80 Faculty conferences 1/24 1/29 1/28 and registration Freshman orientation 1/25, 1 /26, 1/30, 1/31, 1 /29, 1 /30, and registration 1 /27 211 1 /31 Faculty planning day 1/30 212 211 First day of classes 1/31 215 214 College closed- 2/19 2/18 Washington's Birthday Designated classes 2120 3/12 313 start co-op College closed- 3/19-3/26 4/12-4/18 3/31-4/4 Spring recess College Convocation- 512 511 4/29 1 No Day Division classes Last day of classes 5/18 5/23 5/21 r Final examination 5/19, 5/22, 5/24, 5/25, 5/22, 5/23, period 5/23, 5/24, 5/29, 5/30, 5/27, 5/28, 5/25 5/31 5!29 I College closed- 5/28 5/26 Memorial Day Commencement 5/26 611 5/30 2 Contents Page 2 Academic Calendar 5 The College History and Objectives; Campus and Facilities; Fashion Community Interchange 13 Student Life Counseling Services; Governance; Activities 19 AdmissJons 26 Expenses and Financial Assistance Tuition and Fees; Refunds; Financial Assistance 32 Instructional Program Requirement for degrees; Curricula; Majors; Course Descriptions t 144 Directories I 170 Index 176 Location and Correspondence 3 The College Ill History and Objectives Founded in 1944 as the answer to the recognized needs of the fashion industries for professionally prepared young people, the Fashion Institute of Technology® is a unique institution. In 1951, the Fashion Institute of Technology became one of the first community colleges under the program of the State University of New York, empowered to grant the Associate in Applied Science degree. An amendment to the education law of New York State was approved in 1975 permitting the college to also confer Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees. F.l.T.® is a public institution, receiving its principal financial support from the State and City of New York. The college receives its local sponsorship from the Board of Education of the City of New York in cooperation with the Educational Foundation for the Fashion Industries. It is a fully accredited member of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. In order to serve the nationwide community of American fashion, F.I.T. is devoted exclusively to developing young men and women for creative and executive careers in fashion and its many allied industries. As a college totally committed to career education with a broad cultural background, F.I.T. offers not only essential professional preparation, but also a full range of liberal arts courses, as well as counseling and placement services, extra-curricular activities, and access to the cultural life of New York City. Since its graduates are prepared to enter design, management, advertising, industrial engineering, merchandising, and other fashion-oriented fields, it welcomes students with special aptitudes. Today, F.I.T.'s campus in midtown Manhattan is situated near the heart of the fashion industry-executive offices, design studios, manufacturing plants, and distribution and merchandising centers. In day, summer, Winterim, and evening sessions, the college serves 8,500 students, both American and foreign, each year. Ultimately, an enrollment of approximately 10,000 students can be accommodated. Affirming that individual growth is the primary goal of any sound educational program, and that F.I.T. has a particular mission of service to the fashion and related industries, the college works to achieve the following objectives: ... to prepare men and women for professional careers-in the fashion and related industries. 5 ... to develop in its students creative individual thinking based on reasoning . to develop in its students a sense of their uniqueness as individuals with a recognition of their potential. ... to excite the curiosity of the students about the larger worlds of which they are a part. ... to assist the students in their continuing discovery of the depth and breadth of the human experience. 1111 Campus New York City The traditional college campus has always been a green oasis, whether in the heart of a city or in a small town, and it served to separate the institution from the community surrounding it, creating a rarefied and somewhat artificial educational atmosphere. F.I.T., on the other hand, is in no way isolated from the immediate geographical or larger commercial community it serves. All New York ls its campus. The interaction between the community and the college on every level-educational, social, cultural, economic-is dynamic and productive. The entire city serves as a laboratory for F.I.T. students for learning and living. Through specific assigned projects, they are introduced to New York's museums and libraries and to the many different segments of the fashion industry. Through the college's offices of Community Resources and Student Activities, young people at F.I.T. are given the opportunity to discover opera, dance, and drama, galleries and private art collections, expositions of the visual arts, and the spoken and written facets of the communication media. Instructional Facilities Administration and Classroom Buildings The classrooms and laboratories house equipment that reflects the most advanced educational and industrial practices. Specially equipped studios provide creative work areas for students in the fine and applied arts. Technical classrooms and production laboratories that simulate professional conditions are important in the instructional program. ln classroom and independent work, the student may learn how scientific principles are applied in solving problems. The 300-seat Katie Murphy Amphitheatre and The Morris W. & Fannie B. Haft 800-seat auditorium, are equipped for stage and film presentations and can be used for a wide variety of productions, including fashion shows. 6 The Library The library is located on the fourth, fifth and sixth floors of the Shirley Goodman Resource Center. Materials on the fourth floor are primarily for research in fine arts, costume, and the design areas. The fifth floor is the nerve center of the complex. The union card catalogue, reference and reader services, as well as the general book and other media resources are located here. Conference, group study and typing rooms are situated on the two upper floors. Special designer collections, sketch books, extensive files of several hundred periodicals and clipping files devoted to the fashion industries are transforming this facility into a formidable research center. Noteworthy among the many collections donated by friends in the fashion industries are the following: The Lady Dutt-Gordon Collection-twenty-seven scrap books filled with original sketches and photographs of the famous Lucile Collection. The Max Meyer Collection-sketches of Paris imports from 1910 to 1929. The Haft-Swansdown Collection-168 original style sketch books covering the period from 1937 to 1952. The Fredrick Milton Collection-Original sketches from 1940 to 1950. The Berley Collection-French and American fashion sketches from 1919 through 1943. The Millinery Trade Review-donated by Hats Magazine-bound periodicals depicting millinery trends from 1879 through 1932. The Sidney Wragge Collection-Publicity photographs, advertisements, and clippings; 223 bound volumes of fashion periodicals; Le Costume Historique by Racinet. The Du Barry Fashion Studios Sketchbooks-55 bound volumes of coat and suit sketches spanning the period from 1916 to 1948. The Bergdorf Goodman Sketchbooks-147 sketchbooks of original drawings in full color representing the store's designer collections for each season from 1950 to 1970. The Davidow Inc. Sketchbooks-200 sketchbooks of original drawings, many in color, spanning the years 1927-1971. Instructional Media Services The Instructional Media Services Center provides additional classroom learning experiences for the student by offering innovative audio-visual and television services involving 16mm films, filmstrips, slides, audio and video tapes for both individual and classroom use. Located on the fourth floor of the Shirley Goodman Resource Center, are a suite of rooms devoted to media and media production for the instructional program. An access information retrieval system is available to students. F.I.T.'s system, unlike dial access, allows the student to have complete control of the audio-visual equipment and materials required to meet individual learning needs. The student has direct access to slides, video and audio tapes, ETV programs, films, and filmstrips. A broadcast-quality color television studio and two multi-media lecture halls are located on the second floor of the Art and Design Center. 7 Design Laboratory The Design Laboratory is a joint project of the Brooklyn Museum and the Fashion Institute of Technology located in the Shirley Goodman Resource Center.