Fall Seminar / 4 credits
It-Girl Seminar
A senior research seminar on the It-Girl as a recurring cultural figure — what she is, what makes her, what she does to a room, and why every era seems to need a new one.
Syllabus
- Genealogy — the It-Girl across decades
- Style, posture, and signature gesture
- Press cycles and the editorial machine
- Adjacent figures — muses, friends, foils
- Decline, reinvention, and post-It afterlife
- Final seminar paper or curated exhibit
Assessment
20% proposal, 20% archival exercise, 25% seminar leadership, 35% final paper or exhibit.