Nov 23, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2022-23

THAR 3398 - Design History III: 20th- Century Clothing and Culture


The study of the development of Western European and American dress and culture from 1900 to the present. Classwork revolves around using primary and secondary research to explore how fashion changes as a result of shifts in cultural and political developments.

Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Create class presentations and contribute to the original class text compilation.
  • Identify film clips from original and secondary resources that illustrate rules of dress and cultural values in the time frame of study.
  • Identify the period of a selected image from the time frame of the course.
  • Research images that represent key cultural and political events for each decade of study.
  • Select photo images that represent key progressive style changes in menswear or womenswear for each decade of study.


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