Pedagogy and Professional Development

Successful Use of Newspapers in Curriculum Development for First-year College Students

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Abstract

The course, Fashion and Society, is designed to provide first-year Clothing and Textiles major students with an integrated view of fashion as social phenomenon. From the survey on the first-year students’ perceptions about fashion, we have found that many students considered fashion tend to be irrelevant, something fancy and distant to their daily life, and difficult to understand. Based on the comments, we need teaching materials that can be perceived to be “not difficult” (and fun) and relevant. We also needed to design the course to provide students opportunities to apply their knowledge to real life. Thus, we developed the course using several newspapers to help students experience various fashion expressions and reflections a society carries in.

Keywords: curriculum development, newspaper

How to Cite:

Park, J., Seo, H. & Lee, K., (2013) “Successful Use of Newspapers in Curriculum Development for First-year College Students”, International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference Proceedings 70(1).