Credit Study at FIT
Information for Nondegree Credit Students
Credit courses at FIT are the perfect way to enhance your resume, upgrade and update your job skills, progress toward completing a degree, or get the credentials you need to give your career a boost. Our classes combine the academic rigor of credit-based study with hands-on practical skills and creative discovery.
For those seeking to develop or enhance specialized skills by learning the latest technical or professional techniques, FIT offers a number of competency-based credit certificate programs.
Current Course Offerings
Whether amping up your business acumen, diving deep into design, tapping into today's technology, or learning through liberal arts, credit study can help you take your career and personal journey to the next level.
Anatomical Life Drawing for the Illustrator I
Fantasy and Science Fiction Illustration
Major Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
Painting: Still Life and Figures
Product Elements and Principles
Product Elements and Principles Laboratory
Sculpture Studio: Visual Expression of Form and Space
Textile Principles for the Fashion Designer
Beginning Adobe Illustrator for Technical Design
Design and Authoring for Interactive Media I
Design Studio I - Introduction to Draping
Haute Couture Construction & Techniques
Haute Couture Sewing Techniques
Introduction to CAD Modeling for Designers
Multimedia Computing for Advertising and Marketing Communications
Performance Materials for Athletic Footwear
Principles of Display and Exhibit Design: Small Scale
Patternmaking I: Misses' and Women's Wear
Patternmaking II: Misses' and Women's Wear
Textile Principles for the Fashion Designer

Executive Education
Executive Education at FIT offers graduate-level innovative design and strategic business solutions driven by creativity that address today’s and tomorrow’s challenges and opportunities and that will upend the status quo, create personal and professional opportunity, and have a lasting and sustainable global impact.