Fashion as History

CAS WS 451

  • Critical Thinking
  • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
  • Historical Consciousness

This seminar treats clothing and other products of material culture as historical documents. Explores what clothing can tell us about key developments in the modern period relating to trade and commerce, empire, gender, class, industry, revolution, nation-building, identity politics, and globalization. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.

FALL 2024 Schedule

Section Instructor Location Schedule Notes
A1 Chernock HIS 504 M 8:00 am-10:45 am

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