Global Perspectives on Culture, the Body, and Dress

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Define dress and the factors that influence dress within different cultures, including government, economy, and cultural scale.
• Identify the different social and behavioral motivations for dress, including its adornment, protective, and communicative qualities.
• Recognize the social and behavioral theories used to explain the social significance of dress.
• Describe the ways by which dress is consistent with and bound by a particular culture and its meanings relative to specific social situations and contexts.
• Analyze descriptions of dress as material culture within a particular culture and within the context of contemporary global society.
• Analyze how the use of dress establishes social roles and identity within and across cultures.
• Contrast the different symbolic meanings of dress in cultures throughout the world, including the U.S.
• Evaluate and interpret the interrelationships between culture, human behavior, and dress from the perspective of the social and behavioral sciences.
• Synthesize and critically apply knowledge of dress as a form of human behavior in order to continue to be informed viewers of diverse forms and uses of dress.

MAC Student Learning Outcomes for Global Engagement & Intercultural Learning

• Describe dynamic elements of different cultures. These elements may include (but are not limited to) aesthetic systems, communication systems, economics, physical environments, ethics, gender norms, geography, history, politics, religious principles, or social beliefs, norms and practices.
• Explain how similarities, differences, and connections among different groups of people or environmental systems affect one another over time and place.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
COIL culture exchange & reflection	150 points
2 exams (150 points each)	300 points
Textbook activities, quizzes	135 points
Article reflections & discussion	100 points
Total possible points	685 points

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
100 - 93	A
92 - 90	A-
89 - 87	B+
86 - 83	B
82 - 80	B-
79 - 77	C+
76 - 73	C
72 - 70	C-
69 - 67	D+
66 - 63	D
62 - 60	D-
Below 60	F

Attendance/Participation:

Students are responsible for all material covered, including assigned readings, assignments, lectures and discussion, visuals, slides, videos, etc. It is assumed that you are aware of ALL relevant due dates and course requirements.

The Withdrawal Due to Class Attendance form serves as a request to withdraw students from class due to excessive absences/non-participation.

Students who expect to miss one or more class meetings due to participation in university-sponsored activities should notify the instructor(s) at least five class days in advance and arrange to complete all missed work in advance of the absence whenever practicable as judged by the instructor(s).

Exams missed due to an unexcused absence may NOT be made up.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

Culture & Clothing: An introduction to culture, human behavior, and dress (digital text), Dr. Trisha Kemerly. Access card available in UNCG Bookstore, or available directly at https://www.grlcontent.com/