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Art History: Dress and Textile Histories (Taught)
- 2 Study options
- Postgraduate
- Gilmorehill (Main) Campus
Course summary
This Masters provides you with the skills to research and interpret everyday clothing, fashion and textiles in historical contexts. The programme introduces you to theoretical and object-based approaches through a combination of taught and research-based components, showing you how historic dress and textiles can be studied both in their own right and as a means to understand the past. Close links with local and national archives, libraries and museums, including Glasgow Museums and the Victoria & Albert Museum, means the programme offers you a unique insight into the study, curation, interpretation and preservation of historic dress and textile collections.
WHY THIS PROGRAMME
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
You will:
Take three core courses
Take three optional courses
Research and write a dissertation
Semester 1: September to December
CORE 1: FRAMING DRESS AND TEXTILE HISTORIES
CORE 2: RESEARCH METHODS AND SKILLS
One optional course
Semester 2: January to March
CORE 3: APPLYING DRESS AND TEXTILE HISTORIES
Two optional courses
Optional courses
Optional courses include, but are not limited to:
BIRTH OF MODERN FASHION? TEXTILES AND DRESS, 1680 - 1815
UNDERSTANDING TEXTILES: TECHNOLOGY
VICTORIAN VISIONS: DRESS AND TEXTILES, C.1837-1901
MATERIAL CULTURES
RENAISSANCE DRESS AND TEXTILES: MATERIALS AND MEANING
FABRICS OF A NATION: SCOTTISH DRESS AND TEXTILE HISTORIES
WORK PLACEMENT
Level 5 course in History of Art
Level 5 course from those available within the College of Arts subject to the approval of the programme convenor.
Please note that not all optional courses run every year.
Dissertation
DISSERTATION
Programme alteration or discontinuation
The University of Glasgow endeavours to run all programmes as advertised. In exceptional circumstances, however, the University may withdraw or alter a programme. Covid restrictions, for instance, may result in cancelled or altered study visits. For more information, please see: Student contract.
Programme alteration or discontinuation
The University of Glasgow endeavours to run all programmes as advertised. In exceptional circumstances, however, the University may withdraw or alter a programme. For more information, please see: Student contract.
CAREER PROSPECTS
The attributes you gain from the programme will be attractive to employers from museums, the heritage sector, art dealers and auction houses. Other career paths include theatre, film and television production as a costume researcher/designer. The programme also offers an excellent foundation upon which to progress to PhD study and an academic career.
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Art History: Dress and Textile Histories
Email:Sally.Tuckett@glasgow.ac.uk
Phone:0141 330 4515
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