Instructor:
Fashion has been utilized as a tool for common good, moving both culture and the individual toward empowerment, influence, self-identification, and community bonds, but also as a tool of power and privilege to segregate, distinguish, demoralize, and repress human subjects. This course will examine how societal imposed dress codes and self-expression have effects on human responses.
In this class, you will...
1. Explore fashion in its richness and complexity, as a mechanism of self-expression.
2. Recognize how fashion has been used to create and challenge social inequities.
3. Consider how expressing our differences through fashion, we develop and experience bias, discrimination, exclusion, or acceptance.
4. Understand how dynamics of fashion can shape how difference works in the world.