From Shirtwaists to Hoodies: Fashion and Public Life
CSPL 187
Fall 2024
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01
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| Crosslisting:
FGSS 187, IDEA 187, SOC 265 |
| Course Cluster and Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Certificate |
Pictured prevalently and worn close to the body, fashion is a powerful and personal means of expression and documenting public life. This course presents a loose chronology of fashion, from the twentieth century to today, through a selection of themes that will allow students to consider it in terms of its social, political, economic and aesthetic impact. Through the interplay of image, clothing, and text, each week, we will explore the fashion industry from various perspectives, examining the key role makers and consumers play in constructing fashion both historically and today. Specifically, we will question the ways we deploy dress and style to document public life, from the personal to the political, and how it informs our material and visual relationships with the world. In addition to lectures and readings discussion, class time will be allotted to students' fashion documentation projects. Fashion theory will also be introduced to ground our explorations of fashion, variously as a cultural object, embodied practice, site of technological innovation, and tool for shaping one's identity. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS CSPL |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CSCT) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
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"Barnes, Ruth and Joanne Eicher ed., Dress and Gender: Making and Meaning
Breward, Christopher. The Culture of Fashion
Entwistle, Joanne. The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress & Modern Social Theory
Potvin, John, ed., The Places and Spaces of Fashion
Rocamora, Agnès, Djurda Bartlett, and Shaun Cole ed. Fashion Media: Past and Present
Daniel Miller, Stuff
Amy de la Haye, et. al. (ed.) The Handbook of Fashion Studies "
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Examinations and Assignments:
: Assignments will include short essays, a research paper, and class presentations. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
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| Instructor(s): Romano,Alexis Times: ..T.... 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: OLIN014; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 0 | JR major: 0 | | |
| Seats Available: -2 | GRAD: 0 | SR non-major: 6 | JR non-major: 6 | SO: 3 | FR: X |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 7 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 7 |
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