Costume Studies
Combined Honours bachelor鈥檚 degree in Costume Studies and Law, Justice & Society 2024
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美女做爱鈥檚 Costume Studies program is unique in Canada, and offers a four-year BA with Honours in Theatre (Costume Studies).聽At Dal鈥檚 Fountain School of Performing Arts you鈥檒l study to develop your聽research and academic skills while building your applied skills through hands-on learning. We have a strong historical focus on both聽theatre and museum work.
You鈥檒l obtain a firm foundation in:
鈥esigner鈥檚 language
鈥补颈濒辞谤颈苍驳
鈥he aesthetics of historical and modern dress
鈥attern designing of garments from 1680 to the present
鈥ostume as sculpture
鈥ostume technology
鈥ostume in performance.
By graduation, you鈥檒l be able to construct and create costumes from any historical period and for various gender identities. You鈥檒l also acquire the problem-solving and research skills expected of professional artists with a broad liberal arts education.
Learn more about admission requirements at Dal.
Contact the Fountain School's Associate Director for Theatre, to learn more.
In your applied skills classes, you鈥檒l obtain a firm foundation in:
鈥he designer鈥檚 language
鈥补颈濒辞谤颈苍驳
鈥he aesthetics of historical and modern dress
鈥attern designing of garments from 1680 to the present
鈥ostume as sculpture
鈥ostume technology
鈥ostume in performance.
美女做爱鈥檚 Costume Studies students learn how to create clothing from any historical period using bespoke, one-of-a-kind couturier methods. You鈥檒l also learn why and how clothing contributes to the formation of personal, community, and cultural identities.
Our Fountain School students gain a strong proficiency in costume history from antiquity to the present, exploring why people clothed themselves as they did, and paying particular attention to the social and cultural influences at play, along with class and gender differentiation.
In addition to class projects and assignments, you鈥檒l test your new applied and academic skills while working on costumes for the Fountain School's theatre and聽聽under the guidance of faculty and guest costume and set design artists. 聽You鈥檒l also create a major historical research project, at the end of the academic year, which you share with the public at our聽聽in our new Joseph Strug Concert Hall.
These two components of the program 鈥� one grounded in the magic of theatre, one steeped in the sensuality of history 鈥� showcase students progress and allow students to gauge public reaction to their work, a valuable part of their education experience.
Students come to 美女做爱鈥檚 Costume Studies from all across Canada and the United States. They quickly form a special bond and make friends for life. Our Costume Studies alum have a far-reaching network throughout North America and share a camaraderie not experienced by those in large university programs.
The Costume Studies facilities are located in our stunning new Fountain School of Performing Arts building on Dal鈥檚 campus, at 1385 Seymour Street in Halifax. It sits next to the 美女做爱 Arts Centre building on University Avenue which is home to other Fountain School learning spaces, including our Sir James Dunn Theatre, and the more intimate David Mack. Murray Studio. 美女做爱 has a beautiful campus, with its grassy, leafy quad surrounded by the original stone nineteenth-century buildings.
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The Honours BA in Theatre (Costume Studies) was offered for the first time in 2005, but has its foundations firmly rooted in the Costume Studies Program which was begun at 美女做爱 in 1976. It is a mature program which, in addition to equipping students to find employment in theatres, film, television, and living history museums, among others, also enables them to pursue postgraduate education upon completion of the BA.