Overview
Description
The intricate relationship between politics, economics, technology, religion and psychology through the visual medium of dress and style up to 1660.
Requirements
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall - Even Years
Terms
fall
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing.
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate proficiency in discussion applying critical concepts central to clothing and fashion.
- apply both historical and contemporary analysis and interpretation through critical reading.
- articulate, explain, define and provide information regarding the influences of fashion within an era and its cultural and historical implications.
- demonstrate proficiency in written work, applying critical concepts and solid research skills in a term paper not exceeding 6000 words.
- define and identify components of dress, technology and art articulating the interplay among different disciplinary fields relevant to fashion and the ways in which society is transformed by scientific and technological advances.