THRART 310 Costume History

3 Credit(s)

This course provides a survey of the history of costume from origins to the present day and around the world. Through lecture and discussion, students will examine how notions of gender, race, class, nationality, and more have been visually and materially produced in the fashions that developed in different societies. Study will include the clothes worn in Asia, Africa, and India in addition to that which developed in the West.