FSAD 6700

Fashion Theory

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

Provides students with theoretical insights that will enable them to conduct innovative debates and challenge extant creative strategies. The course considers a topical dilemma that students must respond to using conceptual foundations and methodologies that are bound in studio practice, criticism, education, management and the cultural context of fashion design.

Permission Note Priority given to: FSAD majors and transfer students.

Fees Course fee: minimum $250 for materials.

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Outcomes

• Operate in a self-reflexive way when creating fashion.
• Engage in design by means of an equivalent focus upon spontaneity and a well thought-out ideological standpoint.
• Use analysis and criticism to articulate your perspective.
• Contribute toward a set of principles relating to how fashion is constructed and how meaning is imbued in the designed object.
• Rationalize a theoretical territory.
• Design and construct a fashion object informed by a substantive theoretical perspective.
• Demonstrate an appreciation between trend-based fashion and issue-led fashion.

When Offered Spring.

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