Topic Seminars introduce students to the aesthetic concepts, art historical frameworks, and theoretical scholarship relevant to contemporary textile practices. Through lectures, discussions, and extensive readings drawn from the emerging discourse on textile history and theory, art and fashion history, anthropology, literary criticism, and contemporary craft theory, students gain awareness of historical precedents and global contexts of their work. Topic Seminars are offered for upper division students in the fall semester only and have a two-year rotation of topics including Thinking Textiles and Chromophilia.