MUO-C1075 - Critical Issues in Fashion, Lecture, 26.2.2025-9.4.2025

Please note! Course description is confirmed for two academic years, which means that in general, e.g. Learning outcomes, assessment methods and key content stays unchanged. However, via course syllabus, it is possible to specify or change the course execution in each realization of the course, such as how the contact sessions are organized, assessment methods weighted or materials used.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course enables the student to

  1. understand how social and technological change reflects in fashion
  2. understand fashion as embodied culture
  3. contextualize own creative work within wider social frame
  4. express thoughts about fashion in writing.

Credits: 3

Schedule: 26.02.2025 - 09.04.2025

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Annamari Vänskä

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):

Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):

Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: Finnish, Swedish, English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    This course focuses on fashion in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and analyzed and interprets dynamics that shape fashion in society. Topics included may be cultural sustainability, digitalization, globalization, the changing understanding of fashion as embodied culture. This course will build and develop ideas that may be used in the BA thesis project. The course consists of lectures, small-group discussions, film viewings, visits and other relevant activities. Lectures will introduce the subject, discussions and small-group work will widen it.

    Critical Issues in Fashion is one of the joint compulsory courses for all the students of the Bachelor's programme of Design and Fashion.

Assessment Methods and Criteria

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Assignments. 100% active participation in teaching, of which 20% absence can be compensated with additional homework.

Workload

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Lectures, course assignments

    Workload 3cr = 81 h

    • 20 h guided studying
    • 44 h independent studying
    • 16 h internalisation and reflection
    • 1 h giving course feedback

DETAILS

Study Material

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Provided in MyCourses

Substitutes for Courses
Prerequisites

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Teaching Language: English

    Teaching Period: 2024-2025 Spring IV
    2025-2026 Spring IV

    Registration:

    Registration in Sisu. Min. 5 - max. 60 students. When registering, the student chooses which group they want to participate in: a) participating in contact teaching with lectures OR b) independent study.

    Prority order: BA Design and Fashion programme students 2) Digital Fashion minor students. Otherwise 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-at-aalto-arts

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