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3
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10383
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Independent Study
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ARRANGED
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n.a.
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Location Pending
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- Availability:
- Open (Restricted)
- Part of Term:
- 1
- Date Range:
- 08/24/26-12/09/26
- Special Approval:
- Instructor Approval Required
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3
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49057
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Lecture-Discussion
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HVG
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4:00PM
-5:20PM
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MW
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316 Art and Design Building
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von Hesse, H
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- Availability:
- Open (Restricted)
- Part of Term:
- 1
- Date Range:
- 08/24/26-12/09/26
- Credit:
- 4 hours
- Section Title:
- African Fashion Histories
- Section Info:
- This course examines the political, material and artistic dimensions of African and African diaspora dress and cultures of adornment. We will examine the cultural, political and gender significance of some of Africa’s earliest textile weaving, clothing, dying, and beadmaking techniques and industries. In emphasizing the cultural dynamism of African dress, this course emphasizes fashion rather than timeless concepts about “traditional” “communal” “authentic” or “tribal” clothing, and we will study influences on African dress within local as well as the continent’s millennia-old trans-Saharan and trans-oceanic and Islamic cultural and commercial contexts. Ultimately, we will discuss how European colonization, Christian missionization, Islamic revivalism, decolonization, African American cultural enthusiasts, Western fashion brands and global trends both inspired and have been influenced by African dress. Graduate section.
- Restriction(s):
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Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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3
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12451
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Lecture-Discussion
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HVU
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4:00PM
-5:20PM
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MW
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316 Art and Design Building
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von Hesse, H
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- Availability:
- Open (Restricted)
- Part of Term:
- 1
- Date Range:
- 08/24/26-12/09/26
- Credit:
- 3 hours
- Section Title:
- African Fashion Histories
- Section Info:
- This course examines the political, material and artistic dimensions of African and African diaspora dress and cultures of adornment. We will examine the cultural, political and gender significance of some of Africa’s earliest textile weaving, clothing, dying, and beadmaking techniques and industries. In emphasizing the cultural dynamism of African dress, this course emphasizes fashion rather than timeless concepts about “traditional” “communal” “authentic” or “tribal” clothing, and we will study influences on African dress within local as well as the continent’s millennia-old trans-Saharan and trans-oceanic and Islamic cultural and commercial contexts. Ultimately, we will discuss how European colonization, Christian missionization, Islamic revivalism, decolonization, African American cultural enthusiasts, Western fashion brands and global trends both inspired and have been influenced by African dress. Undergraduate section.
- Restriction(s):
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Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
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