Richardson Design Center

The Nancy Richardson Design Center houses design studios, fabrication/prototype/ideation labs, presentation spaces, classrooms, and computer labs. The outdoor spaces, including the Inspiration Alley, the Oasis, the Park, and the Café Terrace offer unique opportunities for alumni gatherings, tailgates, and student interaction. It hosts a variety of classes for students in a Health and Human Sciences major.

Apparel and Merchandising

Interior Architecture and Design

CHHS Computer Labs

⭐ Apparel and Merchandising

Throughout your studies in apparel and merchandising, you’ll gain a broad historical and cultural foundation in the fashion industry, along with opportunities to design and create, analyze consumer behavior, and discover how everything from textile design to product development to brand marketing can help shape cultural understanding and awareness. You’ll begin with hands-on learning, internships, and a student-run shows; you’ll end with a degree that can take you almost anywhere.

Apparel Design and Production Concentration

The Apparel Design and Production concentration focuses on the development of knowledge and skills necessary to engage in the design of textile and apparel goods. Students will complete coursework in aesthetics and design, illustration, pattern development, apparel construction techniques, and computer-aided design.

Product Development Concentration

The Product Development concentration focuses on developing and innovating consumer products. Students will learn skills for product development, sourcing, market potential analysis, trend forecasting, line development, product line management, quality assurance, and supply chain management.

Merchandising Concentration

The Merchandising concentration prepares students for the assortment, planning, and sale of textile and apparel goods. Students will complete coursework in consumer behavior, merchandising processes, management, merchandise buying, retail store design, and the global industry.

⭐ Interior Architecture and Design

The Interior Architecture and Design program provides students with broad exposure to aspects of interior design and prepares them to enhance function and quality of life, increase productivity, and protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public through design. The program is grounded in research-based problem solving in addition to a variety of cultural, environmental, and historical perspectives. This major is also accredited by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA).

⭐ CHHS Computer Labs

Gifford, Richardson Design Center, and Preconstruction Center computer labs are open for 24-hour access. All CHHS student computer labs have a Lab Operator available from 7:30 AM to 8:30 PM, Monday thru Friday, and from 10:30 AM to 4:30 PM, Saturday and Sunday. Please note that Education 220 and Moby will not be open on CSU football game days.

All labs, excluding Education, have remote access to computers. Due to the demand of class reservations taking place in labs, there are a limited number of computers available to remotely access.