SUSTAINABILITY IN FASHION (CM5029)

This course explores fashion not (only) as product but process. It explores this industry from field to fashion and investigates the complex global fashion system from cultures of extraction, design, manufacture, to cultures of representation, consumption, wearing and disposal/re-use. The fashion chain will be studied through a series of rich textual and visual sources, lectures, debates and visits.

Code:

CM5029

Name:

SUSTAINABILITY IN FASHION

Discipline:

CM (Communications)

Type:

Regular

Level:

Graduate

Credits:

Can be taken twice for credit?:

Pre-requisites:

College Level=New Student - Grad OR College Level=Graduate OR College Level=Graduate - Continuing OR Major=MSc: Strategic Brand Management

Co-requisites:

None

Learning Outcomes

Expand and evidence your understanding of the complexity of the contemporary fashion system in its global dimensions and resultant supply and usage chains within fashion
Develop and demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of the key terms and texts, sources and resources, issues and discourses, practitioners and practices relating to “sustainability“ in fashion
Develop and show your understanding of the social, cultural, economic, historical and intellectual context of the current discourse on sustainability
Research, discuss and write critically and independently about contemporary issues relating to sustainability in fashion
Demonstrate an understanding of the inter-relationship between practice and theory
Deepen and apply transferable skills with regards to qualitative research, visual and textual analysis, writing and presenting

SUSTAINABILITY IN FASHION (CM5029)

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