Major Field of Study (MFS)

047-079 - Fine and Applied Arts

071-073 - Creative and Design Arts

071 - Creative and Design Arts - General

A multifaceted discipline which is aimed at developing personal creative expression and aesthetic sensitivity balanced by an understanding of the cultural impact, societal applications and other roles of the design artist. One of the more specific and popular forms of this discipline is Fashion Design which provides students with professional training in the development, production and presentation of apparel design.

• Example Program Names:

  • Art and Design
  • Communication and Design
  • Creative Arts
  • Creative Fashion Design
  • Design
  • Design Arts
  • Dress Design(ing)
  • Fashion (Arts)
  • Fashion Design(er)
  • Fashion Technique and Design
  • Jewellery (Arts)
  • Textile Design

072 - Handicrafts (Arts and Crafts)

A Handicraft is a manual art or trade in which the fashioning of materials (such as wood, fibre, metal, stone, enamel, clay or precious stones) follows the principle and practices of past and contemporary crafts persons.

• Example Program Names:

  • Arts and Crafts
  • Basket Weaving
  • Craft and Design
  • Embroidery
  • Engraving
  • General Crafts
  • Glass Blowing
  • Glass-working - Ornamental
  • Goldsmith(ing)
  • Gunsmithing
  • Handicraft
  • Leather Working
  • Millinery
  • Needlework
  • Taxidermist
  • Weaving

073 - Interior Design and Decorating

Study of the practice and theory of rendering techniques, space planning, architectural drafting, ergonomics model building, history of architecture, contemporary furnishings, and other skills necessary for a career as an interior designer, or an interior design technologist or assistant. Interior designers are employed in studios, architect's offices, hotel, motel and institutional chains, contract furniture chains and large corporations.

• Example Program Names:

  • Decorating
  • Interior Decorating
  • Interior Decoration Design
  • Interior Design
  • Painting and Decorating