Pasadena City College
Course Equivalency Guide
| FIDM Course | Pasadena City College Course |
|---|---|
| BUAD 2850 Entrepreneurship | BUS 116 ENTREPRENEURSHIP |
| BUMT 3820 Business Law | BUS 012A Business Law |
| DESN 1150 Fashion Sketching for Design I*** | FASH 110 Fashion Illustration |
| DESN 1250 Industry Sewing*** | FASH 001A Fashion Survey |
| DESN 1420 Applied Draping Techniques (6 hours) * | FASH 108 Patternmaking by Draping |
| DESN 1760 Pattern Drafting I (6 hours)** | FASH 005 Pattern Drafting |
| DESN 1850 The Business of Fashion | FASH 002 Introduction to the Fashion Industry |
| DESN 2160 Pattern Drafting II (6 hours)** | FASH 105 Intermediate Fashion Drafting and Draping |
| DESN 2540 Computer Pattern Drafting I | FASH 109 Computer Aided Fashion Design |
| DESN 2560 Pattern Drafting III (6 hours)** | FASH 106 Advanced Pattern Drafting and Draping |
| DESN 2680 Creative Design Analysis & Collection Development | FASH 111B Intermediate Fashion Design |
| DESN 2700 Collection Development (6 hours)** | FASH 130 Fashion Workshop |
| GNST 1040 English Composition | ENGL 001A (or ENGL 001AH) Reading and Composition |
| GNST 1080 Drawing Fundamentals* | Art 011A Foundation Drawing (OR) Art 012A Beginning Life Drawing (OR) Art 015 Sketching for Design |
| GNST 1170 History of Costume* | FASH 124 History of Costume |
| GNST 1230 Color & Design Theory | ART 031A Color and Composition-Two Dimensional Design (or) ART 031B Color Theory, GRFX 244 COLOR SEPARATION THEORY AND PRINTING PRODUCTION |
| GNST 1450 College Mathematics* | Any PCC College Math course certified for either CSUGE AREA B4 or IGETC AREA 2 |
| GNST 1600 Effective Speaking | SPEECH 001 (or 001H) Fundamentals of Speech |
| GNST 1650 Critical Thinking* | ENGLISH 001B/001BH Reading and Composition (OR) ENGLISH 001C/001CH Intermediate Composition and Critical Thinking (OR) PHIL 025/025H Introduction to Critical Thinking |
| GNST 2000 Film: History & Development* | CINE 007A Early Film History (+) CINE 007B Contemporary Film History |
| GNST 2020 Survey of Western Art I* | ART 001A History of Western Art PREHISTORIC THROUGH MEDIEVAL |
| GNST 2380 World Art* | ART 001C Arts of Africa, Oceania and Indigenous N America (+) Art 003A History of Asian Art |
| GNST 2420 Survey of Western Art II* | ART 001B History of Western Art |
| GNST 2470 Principles of Biology** | BIOL 010 A Cellular Biology, Genetics and Evolution (or Higher - BIOL 010B or 010C or 011/011H) |
| GNST 2470L Principles of Biology Lab | Lab element attached to GNST 2470 equivalency |
| GNST 2570 Microeconomics** | ECON 001B (or 001BH) Principles of Economics |
| GNST 2630 Principles of Chemistry** | CHEM 001A General Chemistry and Chemical Analysis (or) CHEM 002A Chemistry - General, Organic and Biochemistry (or) CHEM 022 Introductory to Chemistry, (or) ENVS 003 Chemistry and the Environment |
| GNST 2750 Seminar in the Arts* | ART 005 Art Fundamentals |
| GNST 2780 Major Art Movements* | ART 004D History of Modern Art in Europe and America (or) ART Since 1945 |
| GNST 2870 Macroeconomics** | ECON 001A (or 001AH) Principals of Economics |
| GNST 2960 American Political & Economic History | HIST 007B (or 007BH) US United States History from 1876 (or) POLSC 1 Introduction to American Politics (+) Any ONE economics course |
| GNST 3020 Statistics | STAT 015 Statistics for Business and Economics (OR) STAT 050 (or 050H) Elementary Statistics |
| GRPH 1050 Digital Imaging* | GRFX 222 INTERMEDIATE DIGITAL IMAGING - PRINT |
| GRPH 1100 Desktop Publishing | GRFX 220 BASIC DIGITAL IMAGING |
| GRPH 1150 Type & Layout | GRFX 199 INTRODUCTION TO DESKTOP PUBLISHING |
| GRPH 1720 Typography | GRFX 102 TYPOGRAPHY (OR) ART 51B Typography - Application |
| GRPH 2300 PrePress Production | GRFX 021 PRINTING MANAGEMENT PRODUCTION |
| JDSN 1100 Material & Methods for Jewelry Manufacturing | ART 036A Jewelry/Metal Fabrication |
| JDSN 1600 Metalsmithing I | ART 036B Jewelry/Metal Fabrication |
| MMKT 2880 Marketing Essentials* | MRKTG 020 Principles of Marketing |
| PermaLink | Approved: 10/04/2021 |
NOTES:
*Indicates courses that may not be a requirement in all majors. Such courses will be
transferred in if they are a requirement or an elective choice in the transferring students program’s curriculum. ALSO: Major specific course may be accepted by the Department Chair with review of class projects / exams and course description.
**Indicates courses only offered in FIDM’s Business Management Bachelor of Science Degree to complete student’s lower division general education requirements.
***Indicates courses that may transfer after additional evaluation by FIDM’s Fashion Design Department regarding the review of specific projects, stated learning objectives and inquiries regarding the type of equipment and/or programs used. Evaluations could be minimized significantly pending the submission of a course outline and or syllabus.