Course Name: COMM 37091 Let's Talk Fashion - Seminar in Communication and Popular Culture
Description: Fashion is a complex system of non-verbal communication. Our clothes signal meanings about identity, culture, and social norms. This course examines how discourses surrounding fashion construct and reproduce these meanings. Discourse shapes fashion culture, which includes the media and industry narrative. In other words, fashion discourses frame the clothing products and, eventually, shape the consumption practices and the social values we ascribe to certain fashion. It is through the combination of arts, aesthetics, and communication that clothes are transformed into a cultural experience. This course will provide students with an experience that bridges the rich fashion focus of KSU Florence with pop culture and discourse concepts rooted in communication theory and practice. It capitalizes on KSU strengths in Fashion as well as communication & media education to connect disciplines in the Florence context.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites: None
This course is offered through the Kent Campus. Please review course tuition at /tuition to find costs for Kent campus tuition.