LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon completion of the course, the students are able to:
- Identify western fashion styles and how these can be used from a costume designer's perspective.
- Recognise period dress styles, forms and cuts, and define garments and accessories using approriate terminology.
-Relate dress and style with the historical, socio-political, economic and cultural context of a diversity of places and periods.
- Analyse style in a depth, including use of materials, body posture, habits and social manners in different time periods.
- Collect and evaluate sources relevant to period costume from broader cultural history, including the history of art and architecture.
Credits: 5
Schedule: 15.02.2022 - 18.03.2022
Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):
Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Sofia Pantouvaki
Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):
Professor Sofia Pantouvaki, email: sofia.pantouvaki@aalto.fi
Guest tutor: Maarit Kalmakurki, DA, email: kalmakurki@gmail.com
CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):
Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):
Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English
CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD
Content
valid for whole curriculum period:
The course provides an advanced study of period costume and style, and of the meanings of fashion and dress codes in different times relating European fashion history to the history of art. The course examines the development of dress from the beginnings of mankind to contemporary times and provides a deep understanding of periods and the reasons that formed specific dress styles. It focuses on the socio-political, economic and cultural context of the development of dress and costume on and beyond the stage, from a cultural history perspective that builds upon prior knowledge of the history of design.
The course analyzes the elements that create the style of each period, such as forms, colours, materials, and decorative themes as well as additional elements that complement style, such as body posture, manners and the use of accessories. During the course, the students practice on identifying these elements and finding sources for the collection of information for the style of a diversity of periods. The course encourages a research-approach to the subject and entails independent work. It includes lectures, design-based and written assignments and a personal research task to be submitted as final assignment.
applies in this implementation
Students are expected to participate in the lectures, presentations and feedback sessions.
- Each student is required to create a “period costume sketchbook” with drawings of each period examined and annotated in detail. Drawing is used as a method to learn and understand period costume.
- Students are required to write a final essay (10 pages of writing in 12 size font and 1,5 spacing including images to support the text) of their chosen topic, discussed in the beginning of the course. Research for the final essay starts at the beginning of the course.
- Teaching will combine lectures, discussion, small presentations, reading and analysing texts, small home assignments, creating a sketchbook.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
valid for whole curriculum period:
Participation in lectures, presentations, outcome of assignments. Criteria: 80% attendance, students development during the course, motivation, independent and group work outcomes, and active participation in discussions.
applies in this implementation
Students’ development during the course, motivation, attendance and participation in discussions, completion of sketchbook and essay.
Workload
valid for whole curriculum period:
5 cr, Contact teaching: Lectures, discussions, presentations and groupwork 54h, independent work 81h.
DETAILS
Study Material
valid for whole curriculum period:
Select bibliography:
Boucher, François, 1987. 20,000 Years of Fashion: The History of Costume and Personal Adornment. Harry N. Abrams
Boucher, François, 1966/1997. A History of Costume in the West. New enlarged edition. London/New York: Thames and Hudson.
English, Bonnie, 2007. A Cultural History of Fashion in the Twentieth Century From the Catwalk to the Sidewalk. Oxford/New York: Berg.Hollander, Anne, 1993. Seeing Though Clothes. University of California Press
Rieff Anawalt, Patricia, 2007. The Worldwide History of Dress. London: Thames & Hudson.
Tortora, Phyllis and Keith Eubank, 2006. Survey of Historic Costume. A History of Western Dress. Fourth Edition. New York: Fairchild Publications, Inc.
Welters, Linda and Abby Li
Substitutes for Courses
valid for whole curriculum period:
Prerequisites
valid for whole curriculum period:
SDG: Sustainable Development Goals
5 Gender Equality
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further Information
valid for whole curriculum period:
Minimum groupsize 4
Students will be accepted to the course in the following order:
-Students of costume design major, for whom the course is compulsory
- Students of costume design major, for whom the course is optional
- Exchange students of costume design
- Minor students of costume design, whose major is production design or design for the performing arts
- Minor students of costume design, whose major is another than production design or design for the performing arts
- Other students of production design and design for the performing arts
- Other students of the department of Film, Television and Scenography
- Other studentsTeaching Period:
(2020, 2021) - No teaching
2021-2022 Spring III-IV
Course Homepage: https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/search.php?search=ELO-E6501
Registration for Courses: Sisu replaces Oodi on 9 August, 2021. Priority order to courses is according to the order of priority decided by the Academic committee for School of Arts, Design and Architecture: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/registering-to-courses-and-the-order-of-priority-in-aalto-arts
WebOodi registration
The order of priority for admitting students to courses at Aalto ARTS 1.1.2018 onwards (approved by The Committee of Arts, Design and Architecture on 10.10.2017)
The order of priority is as follows:
- students for whom the course is compulsory for their major/programme and who have scheduled it for the current academic year in their personal study plan (HOPS);
- exchange students for whom the course is a part of his/her officially approved learning agreement and scheduled to be taken during the current semester;
- students for whom the course is compulsory for their major/programme and who have not completed it yet;
- students, for whom the course is part of his/her major s or programme s alternative studies and has been scheduled in the student's PSP (HOPS) for the current academic year
- students, for whom the course is part of his/her major s or programme s alternative studies and who have not completed the requisite number of credits for alternative studies yet;
- students for whom the course is compulsory for their minor;
- students, for whom the course is part of his/her minor subject s alternative studies and who have not completed the requisite number of credits for alternative studies yet;
- students who have applied for the course through a student mobility scheme (internal mobility within Aalto University, flexible study right (JOO) studies etc.);
- other students.
Courses that are intended to be multidisciplinary (e.g. UWAS courses) may apply an order of priority based on the learning outcomes of the course, while bearing in mind the university obligation of enabling students to complete their degrees within the normative duration of study set for the degree. The order of priority does not apply to courses organised by the Centre for General Studies or doctoral courses.
This decision on the order of priority does not influence the right of the teacher to define prerequisites for the course.
applies in this implementation
In spring 2022, the course will take place online via Zoom.
ZOOM LINK (valid for weeks 7, 9, 10, 11): https://aalto.zoom.us/j/63654227735
Details on the schedule
applies in this implementation
WEEK 7
Tuesday 15.2 9.00 – 15.30 5 hours (2,5h + 1,5h lunch + 2,5h)
Wednesday 16.2 9.00– 15.00 4,5 hours (2,5h + 1,5h lunch + 2h)
Thursday 17.2 Independent study
Friday 18.2 9.00– 15.30 5 hours (2,5h + 1,5h lunch +2,5h)WEEK 8 (Another course)
WEEK 9
Monday 28.2 9.00 – 12.00 Independent study
13.15 – 16.00 Guest lecture (Scenography & Costume Design lectures)
Tuesday 1.3 9.00 – 15.00 4,5 hours (2,5h + 1,5h lunch + 2h)
Wednesday 2.3 Independent study
Thursday 3.3 9.00 – 12.30 3,5 hours
Friday 4.3 Independent study
WEEK 10
Tuesday 8.3 9.00 – 12.30 3,5 hours
afternoon = Independent study
Wednesday 9.3 9.00 – 15.00 4,5 hours (2,5h + 1,5h lunch + 2h)
Thursday 10.3 9.00 – 15.00 4,5 hours (2,5h + 1,5h lunch + 2h)
Friday 11.3 9.00 – 12.30 3,5 hours
afternoon = Independent study
WEEK 11
Tuesday 15.3 9.00 – 15.00 4,5 hours (2,5h + 1,5h lunch + 2h)
Wednesday 16.3 Independent study
Thursday 17.3 9.00 – 15.00 4,5 hours (2,5h + 1,5h lunch + 2h)
Friday 18.3 9.00 – 15.00 4,5 hours (2,5h + 1,5h lunch + 2h)
Essay deadline (by end of day)
Feedback session:
WEEK 13
28.3 9.00 – 11.00 2 hours Feedback session
Zoom link for the feedback session: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/67644002742