Design History

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Class Hours: 3 Credits: 3 Description: Covers design in architecture, fashion, craft, furniture, interior, textile, graphic arts, and illustration in their social, cultural, economic, political, technical, and aesthetic contexts. Considers materials, technology, and debates informing the configuration of things such as Modernism, gender, race, class and taste, as well as the changing role of the designer, and the effects of shifting lifestyles on patterns of production and consumption.