First-Year Seminars 110FA - Fashion, Style and Design

Fall
2017
01
4.00
Vanessa James
TTH 10:00AM-11:15AM
Mount Holyoke College
101130
Rooke Theatre 104
vjames@mtholyoke.edu
This First Year Seminar will discuss the impact of political and social change on the fashion and decorative art movements of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Students will study how and why fashions were created, explore the meaning and significance of style, and examine the role of design in the popular imagination and cultural memory of the period.
First-year students only, by placement.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.