Provide historical overview of costume history in the United States and Europe. Introduce students to sources of information and research in costume history. Introduce students to costume collection management in a museum setting. Help students understand the relationship between the social construction of gender and the history of costume in Europe and the United States. Examine the relationship of economic, political, technological, artistic, and social life to costume history.
Assignments are due in class on the date due.
Assignments that are put in my mailbox or turned in late receive a lower letter grade than those turned in on time. Habitual late assignments will affect your grade in this course. Letter grades are based on a percentage grading scale. D Class Policies Attendance - You are responsible for the information presented in class, including slides which will not be shown on an individual basis. Exams will include slide identification questions not easily answered without seeing the slides presented in class.