Course Catalog

This course aims to challenge existing notions of fashion by looking into several fashion systems - past and present - and engage with their social,economic, cultural and environmental impact. Systems of textiles and fashion revolve around numerous processes and actors, which are involved in complex chains from design, production, and distribution to consumption and use. Ready to wear, haute couture, fast, bespoke, vintage, slow or circular fashion - are some of the models operating on a global and local scale, all of which produce and market fashionable goods and ideas.
This course critically explores these different spaces and places of fashion.
We will begin with historical examples, especially looking at the effects of the Industrial Revolution and imperialism on textile production in Europe and globally in the 19th century. We will also discuss the establishment of Paris as the "capital of Western fashion" to the present day. Paris has been instrumental in the development of a globalized fashion system with wide-ranging effects on the environment and the living conditions of workers in the Global South.Exploring the life cycle of a garment will allow us to reflect on manufacturing processes and engage with sustainable practices such as upcycling, mending, and reuse. This course will encourage the rethinking of fashion systems under a holistic approach, one that reduces the footprint on raw materials and communities and fosters environmental responsibility and equity. Grounded in theory and practice, this course encourages critical discussions on fashion through lectures, research projects, visits,and guest talks, making extensive use of visual media and textual sources.

Explores what happens when dress and grooming become the basis for the modern phenomena of fashion. Studies the historical development of fashion: how fashion relates to the emergence of artistic, social, and economic forms and the ways fashion communicates ideas about status, gender, or culture. Investigates the role of media, advertising and marketing in the global fashion industry.

This course provides an overview of political communication theories, modes, means and institutions and serves as an introduction to how communication scholars study politics and the media. We will cover prevalent political communication theories and trends, the relationship between political institutions and the press both in the US and in other countries, elections, debates, political campaigning and advertising, new media and politics, political socialization, education, politics and popular culture.

Gives students a basic overview of the process of producing audiovisual material for non-fiction radio and television, with an emphasis on broadcast news and documentaries; explores the various stages of news production, from the development of a story concept to completion of the finished program. The goal is to enable the student to achieve an understanding of the basic techniques, equipment and the role of key personnel in a professional news environment. Students who take this course may not take CM/FM 1019 Principles of Video Production.