Mar 28, 2024  
2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog, Volume 80 
    
2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog, Volume 80 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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CREA - 265. The Global Story of Clothing


3 credit(s)
This course will involve the study of clothing that addresses non-western cultures and their influence on the economics, technology and politics of their time. Fashion has traditionally been linked to elitism and systems of class-based power. The course will seek the decolonize the study of costume and fashion history. The course will investigate race and classism and the contributions of all people from a global perspective. It will reveal indigenous people’s contributions and inventions in technology and textile production. It will address and elevate women’s contribution as primary laborers in the profession of the clothing industry. It will examine the costumed of the oppressed, religion and the “other” and, the symbolism of their expression. It will also examine how the practices of the past are influencing current designs and trends in the fashion world of today. Students will be able to think critically about the impact the textile and fashion industry has had on societies. Students will be exposed to current practices regarding cultural appropriation and the destructive contribution that fashion industry has on the environment and labor as well.

Attribute: ARTS, HAR, NOEX



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