Fashion Studies - CUNY Graduate School and University Center

Fashion Studies from CUNY Graduate School and University Center is a Campus Master Fashion degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. From classical antiquity onward, the study of fashion has been consistently a subject of social commentary and has played a crucial role in the formation of personal, national, and transnational identities. Today it is emerging as a fertile field of research that reaches beyond national and cultural boundaries. Available to doctoral candidates in all disciplines, the Concentration in Fashion Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York is the culmination of many years of work in the field?lectures, experimental courses, and international conferences?and the Graduate Center offers a rich array of interdisciplinary courses that provide a broad understanding of the fashion system, both as an economic force and an industry, in relation to social and cultural history, the arts, theories of the body and gender, consumption, new technologies, and media and popular culture. Goals of the Concentration To produce scholars who are fully cognizant of the diverse and rich field of fashion studies and who are prepared to contribute via research and theory to developing this field. To provide doctoral students with an understanding of the analytical and research tools needed to navigate and articulate the study of fashion in all its multifaceted manifestations. To provide a focus on New York and the impact fashion has had in shaping the city's identity and in making it one of the most prominent global capitals of fashion , while also demonstrating how the rapid pace of cultural diffusion now is expanding the field beyond national and cultural boundaries. View more details on CUNY Graduate School and University Center . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Fashion courses.