COMMUNICATING FASHION (GS3004)

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Explores what happens when dress and grooming become the basis for the modern phenomena of fashion. Studies the historical development of fashion: how fashion relates to the emergence of artistic, social, and economic forms and the ways fashion communicates ideas about status, gender, or culture. Investigates the role of media, advertising and marketing in the global fashion industry.

Code: 
GS3004
Name: 
COMMUNICATING FASHION
Discipline: 
GS (Gender Studies)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
(CM1023 AND (CM2051 OR CM2051CCR)) OR CM1110
Co-requisites: 
None
Equivalencies: 
COMMUNICATING FASHION (CM3004)

Learning Outcomes

  1. Demonstrate a foundational knowledge of the key concepts, themes, and thinkers in the communication of fashion.
  2. Show understanding of fashion as idea, object, image, process, and business which are communicated through different media and by different actors.
  3. Demonstrate transferrable skills used in qualitative research, visual and textual analysis, critical thinking, writing, and presenting.

Offering(s)

Term Code Name
Fall 2023 GS3004 COMMUNICATING FASHION
Fall 2024 GS3004 COMMUNICATING FASHION

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