Visual Sociology - YBAJ351

• Title: Visual Sociology
• Guaranteed by: Programme Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2020 to 2020
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, MC [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / 30 (30)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Ludmila Maria Wladyniak, M.A., Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Ludmila Maria Wladyniak, M.A., Ph.D.
• Class: Courses available to incoming students
• Incompatibility : YBA351
• Interchangeability : YBA351
• Is incompatible with: YMH050, YMH150, YMH550, YBA351
• Is interchangeable with: YBA351

Annotation

English

Last update: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (17.01.2023)

The course is an introduction to visual sociology and visual research methods. It provides students with the basics of visual sociology and visual studies, both in theory and practice. Its aim is also to give students an opportunity to explore the field themselves and gain some practice in working with visual material in social sciences. The course is completed by in-class workshops, students’ own projects and outside classroom activities.

Aim of the course

Last update: Ludmila Maria Wladyniak, M.A., Ph.D. (23.03.2021)

 OBJECTIVES:

·         to present the basic assumptions and main currents of the subdiscipline

·         to help to understand the visual culture – offline and online

·         to let students explore the field themselves

·         to involve students into the practical exercises and activities

·         to show the usability of sociological approach outside the academic environment

Syllabus

Last update: Ludmila Maria Wladyniak, M.A., Ph.D. (24.04.2024)

COURSE PROGRAM

1.   Introduction to the course I

FILM: John Berger Ways of seeing (1972), part 1

2.   Introduction to the course II

own images & presentations

3.     History of image and photography

 Sontag, Susan (2005) ‘On Photography’. New York: Rosetta Books, p. 1-20.

Film: The Hand that Touches the Arm (2022)

4 & 5.  Photo workshop: interactions in public place

6 & 7.  Visual semiotics & advertising

Rose, Gillian (2012) Semiology: laying bare the prejudices. Beneath the smooth surface of the visible, in: 'Visual Metodologies'. Thousand Oaks California: Sage Publications, p. 106-146.\

Film: Helmut Newton: the Bad and the Beautiful (2020)

8.   War photography

Butler, Judith (2009) Torture and the Ethics of Photography: Thinking with Sontag, in: ‘Frames of War’. New York: Verso, p. 63-101.

FILM: The War Photographer (2001)

9.  Methods I: photo-elicitation 

Clark-Ibánez, Marisol (2004) Framing the Social World With Photo-Elicitation Interviews. American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 47, No. 12, pp. 1507-1527.

10. The final project - Students living and the housing crisis (a photo-elicitation project)

In-class discussion

11.     Methods II: photo-essay

Bourgois,  Philippe & Jeff Schonberg (2009) Righteous dopefined. California University Press: chapter 7. 

12. Presentation of final projects

Course completion requirements

Last update: Ludmila Maria Wladyniak, M.A., Ph.D. (04.02.2020)

REQUIREMENTS & ASSESSMENT

 

•       active participation in classes - reading and discussing compulsory literature

•       final project

•       attendance - 70%

Learning resources

Last update: Ludmila Maria Wladyniak, M.A., Ph.D. (30.01.2022)

Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=9483