College of DuPage |
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Instructor: Kathleen Kamal |
| Fashion 1130
Fall 2010 Location: AC 225 |
History of
Costume 1 |
Office: Jewelry Lab AC 264b
(630) 942-2068 kamalk@cod.edu |
| Class times:
Wed. 1:00 – 3:50 pm Text: Tortora and Eubank, Survey of Historic Costume, 5th ed |
Syllabus |
Blackboard: bb.cod.edu
Blog: codjewelry.wordpress.com Facebook: COD Jewelry & Metals |
Course description:
History of costume through the ages with emphasis on the western world; costumes of antiquity through the sixteenth century.
Course objectives:
1. Identify distinguishing costume terminology throughout history.
2. Locate sources of information on historical costume.
3. Identify specific characteristics of each period.
4. Describe silhouettes, colors, fabrics, and accessories used for human adornment.
5. Interpret what influenced the fashion design inspirations over time, from the study of historic costume.
6. Relate social, political, technological, and economic forces that have significantly changed fashion throughout history.
Method of instruction:
Assigned text readings, lectures, slides, videos, historic costume sourcebook, and a small research paper.
Evaluation:
The course will be moving at a rapid pace in order to cover required material. Missing class will put you behind. It is your responsibility to get missed lecture notes. Keep yourself tuned in to assigned due dates listed in this syllabus. No late projects will be accepted without prior knowledge of the instructor. You will be tested on each period. The format will be a combination of objective questions and short answer. There will be a quiz at the end of each chapter. No makeup quizzes will be given except by arrangement prior to quiz date.
Grading: Sourcebook, paper, attendance, class participation, quizzes. You may drop your lowest quiz grade. Therefore, No quizzes will be made up.
A Superior
The finest and most articulate student design work. This work goes beyond the requirements and brings additional information to the class. The student also actively participates in class discussions and critiques
B Good
The student’s performance is above average. It meets all of the project’s criteria but there should be further investigation and improvement.
C Average
The work has satisfied all of the project’s requirements but does not demonstrate the concept development, creativity, or possibly the craftsmanship of a B-level project. It is usually a time issue where not enough time was devoted to the concept or the actual piece
D Deficient
Minimum requirements were not fulfilled
PLEASE NOTE: I DO NOT TOLERATE CELL PHONES, TEXT-MESSAGING, OR BEEPERS IN CLASS!!! It’s rude and immature. LAPTOPS USED FOR PURPOSES OTHER THAN NOTE-TAKING WILL ALSO NOT BE TOLERATED. Please don’t make me get out my monkey!
Tentative Class schedule – Check blackboard for changes in the schedule:
| Week 1 8/25 | Introduction to course
Syllabus, sourcebook, paper |
read chapters 1 and 2 (for week 4)
Fashion and Clothing |
| Week 2 9/1 | The Ancient World
c. 3500 BCE – CE 300 |
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| Week 3 9/8 | The Ancient Middle East 3500-600 BCE Mesopotamia | |
| Week 4 9/15 | Ancient Egypt | read chapter 3
PAPER TOPIC SELECTED |
| Week 5 9/22 | Crete, Mycenae, Greece
c. 2900-300 BCE |
read chapter 4 |
| Week 6 9/29 | Etruria and Rome c. 800BCE – CE 400 | read chapter 5 |
| Week 7 10/6 | Ancient Jewelry | |
| Week 8 10/13 | The Early Middle Ages c. CE 300-1300 | Read Chapter 6 |
| Week 9 10/20 | The Middle Ages c. CE 300-1500 | FIRST SOURCEBOOK REVIEW |
| Week 10 10/27 | Field Museum Field Trip – Gold Show | |
| Week 11 11/3 | Byzantine Empire c. CE 330-1453 | Ancient Jewelry / Gold |
| Week 12 11/10 | The Late Middle Ages c. CE 1300-1500 | Read Chapter 7 |
| Week 13 11/17 | The Italian Renaissance c. CE 1400-1600 | Read Chapter 8 |
| Week 14 11/24 | No Class – Happy Thanksgiving | Papers due Next Week |
| Week 15 12/1 | The Northern Renaissance c. CE 1500-1600
PAPERS DUE |
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| Week 16 12/8 | Review | |
| Finals Week 12/15 | Final Exam |
- It is the student’s responsibility to meet with the instructor regarding special problems, absences, advising, and class progress. Appointments may be scheduled during my office hours or in advance for other times.
- Incompletes will not be given. The grade earned will be recorded. If the student is able to make up the work and after extensive discussions with the instructor, the grade will be changed. Remember you must officially drop the course if you cannot complete the class.
- The instructor reserves the right to keep selected student work until one week after the end of the semester to photograph and display, and to publish such photographs in any media as deemed appropriate. We must photograph student work for the purposes of retaining our NASAD accreditation.
- Students are expected to be familiar with college policies covered in the College of DuPage Catalogue and the Board Policies found on the College’s Web Page.
- Students are expected to ask questions about the assignments during class time. Office hours are to be used for advising students. If extra help is needed on a project, the student needs to make an appointment with the instructor.
History of Costume 1130
Fashion Sourcebook
The purpose of this assignment is to analyze characteristics of period costume and see how fashion is constantly revised. Photocopy, trace, or sketch one male and one female garment (or part of the garment) or accessory for each of the historical time periods listed in the period handout. Find a contemporary illustration from a current fashion magazine, catalogue, flyer, newspaper, or the internet, that mirrors the fashion image of the specific historic example. It may be only a sleeve treatment, bodice, skirt, hat, or trousers of a particular time period. It may be difficult to find examples of historic influence in modern menswear; examples from women’s wear are completely acceptable.
Each period should be on a separate page that contains:
1. A visual example of a specific historic garment
2. A contemporary example that shows the historic influence in today’s fashion scene.
3. A caption noting the period (e.g. Egyptian, Baroque)
4. A label for each fashion element (e.g. basque, knickerbockers)
5. A brief paragraph, typed or neatly written, explaining the similarity between the historical style and the contemporary style
Documentation of sources of information may be given on each page, or at the end, in MLA bibliographic style.
Place the pictorial fashion history project in an organized 8½” x 11” notebook in CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. Grade is determined on thoroughness, neatness, quality of examples and text, and creativity of presentation. Sourcebooks will be examined at mid-term; sourcebooks not submitted for mid-term evaluation will lose 10% of total grade. The completed project will be due at the end of the semester.
Fashion Design 1130 History of Costume I
Research Paper
The purpose of this exercise is to trace the history and evolution of the fashion silhouette in any group of people not covered in detail in the class lectures. This may include the dress of non-Western nations and tribes, sub-groups in society like Levites, Punks, Pre-Raphaelite dress-reformers, or fetishists, or the traditional dress associated with an occasion like weddings, coronations or funerals, or associated with a profession like lawyers or courtesans. Discuss how this clothing has changed over time, and how it has significance for the group that created it and wore/wears it.
Paper should be 5-7 TYPED, double-spaced pages, with bibliographic citation of at least three sources besides your text. The page count does not include title page, illustrations or bibliography. Do not place your paper in a fancy folder.
Papers without title page, illustrations and bibliography will not be accepted.
**Plagiarism is against the law and is grounds for failure of this class, regardless of other scores.
Learning about history through the study of what was made and worn helps us to connect to ourselves as humans. It is an incredible amount of material to cover. What you learn in this class may affect who you are and may change your future work. Let’s have some fun while we learn together!
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