FDM 3620: Cultural Perspectives of Global Dress
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Analyze concepts and theories related to dress, identify, fashion, and culture and how they intersect with sex, gender, sexuality, beauty, attractiveness, disability, religion, race, ethnicity, space/place, land, and/or nation with heightened attention to marginalized communities across the globe. Critique the social justice issues within the global fashion system and identify the driving forces of transformative social justice change from a global perspective. Emphasis on decolonizing philosophies. Deconstruct one's personal values and positionalities in relation to the course topics. Meets International Perspectives Requirement. (Typically Offered: Spring)