FASHION SYSTEMS THINKING      3 Credit Hours

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The adverse effects of the global fashion industry have become an established narrative throughout fashion academic and industry circles. This course examines economic, social and environmental impacts of the fashion value chain from a systemic perspective. Focus is on the five key components used in systems thinking approach, namely: interconnectedness, synthesis, emergence, feedback loops, causality and systems mapping to practice problem solving that views fashion industry-related problems as part of a wider, dynamic system.