Communication · Boston College
Satisfies one of two writing-intensive courses required within the Communication major. Restricted to Juniors and Seniors. This writing intensive course approaches fashion as a social practice that functions not only as an aesthetic performance, but also communicates messages concerning one's gender, sexual, racial, and class identities, affiliation with (or opposition to) resistant political movements and subcultural groups, and their attitudes towards the ruling ideology. When we get dressed, we are always broadcasting to others resonant signals about who we are, what we value, and how we wi
