About Clothes: Styles, Histories, Activisms, Poetics
ENGL 332
Spring 2024
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| Crosslisting:
FGSS 333, CHUM 333 |
| Course Cluster and Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Certificate, Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Certificate |
In this course you will learn about some of the looks, discourses, forms of work, sensory meanings, and embodied histories relevant to/circulating around the wearing and study of clothing, in our time-place and at selected points over the past several hundred years. The syllabus includes works of literature, scholarship, visual art, performance, journalism, and activism. Among the questions we will ask: What does it mean to read clothes? How may we understand the transatlantic and global circuits that have informed various fashion systems, including ideas about who may wear what kinds of clothes? How and why have the labor, products, pleasures, and pains of this (multi-billion-dollar) business been understood as trivial? Throughout the semester, you will conduct your own experiments at the intersections of language, identities, and the materiality of clothing. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA CHUM |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (CSCT)(ENGL)(ENGL-Creative W)(FGSS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Likely to include works by: Rebecca Arnold, Robin Givhan, Tanisha C. Ford, Jamaica Kincaid, Catherine McKinley, Lynda Nead, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Lou Taylor, Virginia Woolf, and others.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Essays and multi-disciplinary assignments
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Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Required attendance at 1-2 campus lectures/readings linked to course
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| Instructor(s): Cohen,Lisa Times: .M..... 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: BOGH112; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 16 | | SR major: 4 | JR major: 3 | | |
| Seats Available: 4 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 3 | FR: 0 |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 6 | 1st Ranked: 2 | 2nd Ranked: 2 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 1 | Unranked: 1 |
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