GWS 3270 - Beauty Cultures

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENG 1020

Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): ENG 1020

Description: This course explores contemporary and historical beauty cultures (both in the U.S. and in a global context), their critiques, and their impact on the lived experience of individuals, including students enrolled in the course. Students discern and untangle the interplay between individual aesthetic impulses and larger cultural and structural forces as they pertain to the beautification of the human face and body.

University Requirement(s): Arts and Humanities, Global Diversity