Featured Undergraduate Coursework
Modern Art In The City
Modern Art In The City
Modern Art In The City
Pedagogy
MF 526 (developed)
Fashion Design Legacies
This course familiarizes students with the design hallmarks, business innovations, and cultural movements that transformed dressmakers into icons while exploring the role of museums, archives, and libraries in preserving their legacies. Students also develop skills in image research, citing their sources, oral and written communication, and formatting papers.
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
HA 118
Introduction to Fashion History: Materials, Motifs & Meanings
This course explores the history of trade, inspiration, and appropriation between cultures through case studies. It examines how fashion shapes identity and the complex intersection of materials, motifs, and meanings. It teaches how to ethically study global fashion, factoring in existing and historic power structures and cultural values.
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
SO 386
Youth Subculture, Identity, and Fashion: A Sociological Perspective
This course explores youth subcultures, in relation to gender, race and class identity. Students are introduced to various case studies of youth subcultures around the world, including Goth, Punk, and Lolita, and analyze how their values, norms, attitudes and beliefs are reflected on their styles.
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
FT521
Fashion History through the Nineteenth Century
Surveys the history of fashionable dress in the West from the late Middle Ages through the nineteenth century, with the goal of surpassing the simple chronicle of changing styles to explore the meaning of fashion in the broadest possible context. Students will define fashion, its relation to the arts and function in society, and determining when its history begins, using an interdisciplinary approach that examines a range of scholarly resources, including literature of the field and primary sources. Lectures supplemented by extensive use of the costume collection at The Museum at FIT.
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
HA 346
History of Twentieth-Century Fashion in Europe and the U.S.
This course covers the history of fashionable dress during the twentieth century, in the context of the history of art and design, with emphasis on leading fashion designers and their connections and collaborations with fine and decorative artists in Europe and the United States. The development of new global fashion centers during the last quarter of the century is also included.
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
SXF 610
The Great Fashion Designers
Working in the renowned costume collection of The Museum at FIT, gain insight into the most influential historical designers through the actual examination of priceless garments. Discover how important fashion trends influence lifestyle and dressing. Gain a greater understanding of important designer trademarks and their ongoing influences.
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
TH 228
History of Costume and Fashion
A survey of western historic fashion and costume for women and men from ancient times to the present, including the cultural and political events that shaped each era and it's clothing. An introduction to the design elements: color, line, form texture and silhouette and a brief introduction to the use of graphic techniques in the presentation of fashion and costume designs. Analysis of the artistic styles of each era as they relate to understanding costume detail and stylization.
Wagner College, New York