Fashion Trends FSHD 1308
Section 19787 (January 17, 2017 through May 14, 2017)

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ORIENTATION:

Students must read the online orientation through ACC Blackboard the first week of class. After reading the orientation information students will need to complete an orientation quiz. (See page 8 of this syllabus for directions to access BLACKBOARD on the ACC website.) The online orientation quiz needs to be completed the first week of class.

Students who do not complete the course work on schedule and WHO DO NOT withdraw themselves will receive an F.

If your name, address, and/or telephone number or email address changes, notify the instructor immediately. This will insure that you receive all the necessary information and keep your name on the class rolls. THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is the study of fashion trends within the world (global community). The course is designed to address the meanings of dress within the cultural, historical, social, and individual context.

Topics shall include dress as a non-verbal communication, dress and relationships, gender and sexuality as it relates to dress, modesty and immodesty, dress in the workplace, race and ethnicity and dress within world religions. Dress within each of the life stages will be discussed.

Coursework includes a collection of thought provoking writings from popular magazines, newspapers, scholarly journals, books, advertisements and cartoons.

COURSE MATERIALS: Required textbook: The Meaning of Dress, 3nd edition, Damhorst, Miller-Spillman, and Michelman, Fairchild Publications, 2012 (ISBN: 978-1-60901-2786.).

COURSE RATIONALE: The purpose of this course is to give a broad spectrum of why people dress the way they dress and how the individual is affected by his family, peers, society and the global world. With this information the student should be better able to understand and determine fashion trends.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: This course will familiarize the student with the psychological, sociological, historical and cultural aspects of clothing in the global economic community and help track fashion trends keeping in mind technological changes in the production of clothing. Fashion Trends will cover the following topics of study:

  1. Cultural Perspectives Outside of the United States
  2. Ethnic Diversity Within the United States
  3. Adolescence and Children
  4. Historical context
  5. Postmodern Characteristics

 

COURSE REQUIREMENTS: You are required to:

  1. Read the required textbook material.
  2. Prepare yourself for the course exams by reviewing terms and review questions in each chapter.
  3. Take 5 exams during the semester on or before each deadline date on the established schedule.
  4. Complete a Mini-Research Project choosing one of the topics listed below, and submit that report along with a list of reference materials used. Please note the deadline date is August 6, 2010. Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Any papers found copied from another student or the internet will receive a grade of Zero points. NO late papers will be accepted.
  5. Do assignments and participate on the discussion board on BLACKBOARD. Assignments will be online articles the instructor will place on BLACKBOARD pertaining to fashion trends which the student will read and be quizzed on. If time allows, a discussion board “thread” will be started to discuss the trend. Students will be notified either via email or on the announcement page when an assignment is posted. These assignments and discussions will total 10% of your semester grade.