SUSTAINABILITY IN FASHION (CM5029)

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This course explores fashion not (only) as product but process. It explores this industry from field to fashion and investigates the complex global fashion system from cultures of extraction, design, manufacture, to cultures of representation, consumption, wearing and disposal/re-use. The fashion chain will be studied through a series of rich textual and visual sources, lectures, debates and visits.

Code: 
CM5029
Name: 
SUSTAINABILITY IN FASHION
Discipline: 
CM (Communications)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Graduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
College Level=New Student - Grad OR College Level=Graduate OR College Level=Graduate - Continuing OR Major=MSc: Strategic Brand Management
Co-requisites: 
None

Learning Outcomes

  1. Expand and evidence your understanding of the complexity of the contemporary fashion system in its global dimensions and resultant supply and usage chains within fashion 
  2. Develop and demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of the key terms and texts, sources and resources, issues and discourses, practitioners and practices relating to “sustainability“ in fashion 
  3. Develop and show your understanding of the social, cultural, economic, historical and intellectual context of the current discourse on sustainability 
  4. Research, discuss and write critically and independently about contemporary issues relating to sustainability in fashion 
  5. Demonstrate an understanding of the inter-relationship between practice and theory 
  6. Deepen and apply transferable skills with regards to qualitative research, visual and textual analysis, writing and presenting 

Offering(s)

Term Code Name
Summer 2025 CM5029-3WK1 SUSTAINABILITY IN FASHION

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