TOPICS: PARIS FASHION HISTORIES & GEOGRAPHIES in Fall 2024 (CM2091B)

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Course Master: 
TOPICS IN COMMUNICATIONS (CM2091)
Term: 
Fall 2024
Discipline: 
CM (Communications)
Credits: 
4 credits
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Undergraduate
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
Yes
Exam Date: 
Saturday, December 14, 2024 - 09:00
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Professor(s)

Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will acquire awareness of positions on urban and fashion history elaborated by certain key theorists.
  2. Students will acquire some knowledge of how institutional actors (courts, commercial ventures, worker organizations), as well as individual creators and craftspeople have played roles in the development of the fashion industry in Paris.
  3. Students will be able to compare recent and contemporary practices in the Paris fashion industry with those of earlier periods.
  4. Students will develop an understanding, from wide reading, lectures, visits and in-class discussions, of the way in which Paris has developed as a template for urban from elsewhere, the capital of a major nation state, and a center for conspicuous consumption.
  5. Students will be able to understand the nature and impact of media on the development and diffusion of fashion in Paris.

Syllabus

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Schedule

Start Date: 
Monday, September 2, 2024
End Date: 
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Wednesday
09:00
11:55
G-102