Theatre Arts 350WD - Women in Design

This course will discuss women who have made a seminal contribution to the way we see and experience the visual world through design and material culture including the performing arts, film, fashion and couture, the decorative arts, gardens and interiors. Students will familiarize themselves with the work of Coco Chanel and her female contemporaries, Gertrude Jekyll, Zaha Habib, Irene Sharaff, Loie Fuller, Sonya Delaunay, Lyubov Popova, Margaret Macdonald, and Eileen Grey as well as many other groundbreaking luminaries. Students will research and analyze a designer's work, and create written and visual presentations. Students will also design a small project.

Prereq: 8 credits in Theatre Arts, English, Art History, Studio Art, or Dance.