Fashion in History
This course examines the social history of fashion from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries with a global focus on the fashions in the Western, Chinese, and colonial contexts. It addresses the emergence and development of new materials, presentations, and interpretations of fashions in Europe, America, China, and former colonies in Asia. In the course, we not only will explore the major global transformations of fashions and their relationships with various political, economic, and social contexts in historical and contemporary realities, but also their social significance to people in reshaping their individual and communal identities. Through re-evaluating our everyday life that students may often overlook, the course aims to provide them with a wider understanding about how fashion represents various forms of social systems in history that critically shape and reshape our lives.
To encourage students to have stronger engagement in class, this course comes with a wide range of interactive learning activities including group discussions, presentations on case studies, student-led Q&A sessions, class polls, surveys, and low-stakes game quizzes. The course also pays attention to students’ active learning. By organising weekly research sessions on studying original sources, it seeks to encourage them to take the initiative to critically think, discuss, investigate, and create their findings.
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