UNSW Handbook Course - Dressed to Kill: Dress and Identity in History

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Dressed to Kill: Dress and Identity in History - GENT0312

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	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of History and Philosophy
	Course Outline: See below
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 3
	EFTSL: 0.062 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 2
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Focuses on the many meanings of dress from daily attire, national dress, and religious costume, to high fashion across a wide gamut of cultures. Specific topics include gender and identity, dress and citizenship, inventing national dress, mass manufacturing, uniforms, haute courture, and issues of tradition and modernity as shown through the human body. The relationships between cocealment and etiquette, cloth, holiness and magic, dress and undress, and the manipulation of costume for political agendas will also be explored. Case studies will be taken from world history particularly Europe and Asia from approximately the last four hundred years.

Learning Outcomes

To develop analytical skills through discussion of reading and visual materials
To develop skills in oral presentation of a topic and leadership of discussion
To further skills in research and writing
To create an environment in which students are able to experience the benefits of moving beyond the knowledge boundaries of a single discipline and explore cross-and interdisciplinary connections.

Assessment

Class participation - 20%
Two tutorial tasks - 30%
Research essay (1000 words) - 30%
In-class test - 20%

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