Documentary photography and social research - JSM581

• Title: Documentary photography and social research
• Guaranteed by: Department of Sociology (23-KS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (0)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• For which faculty: FAMU
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Ludmila Maria Wladyniak, M.A., Ph.D.
• Class: Courses for incoming students
• Pre-requisite : JSB534

Annotation

Last update: Ludmila Maria Wladyniak, M.A., Ph.D. (11.02.2019)

The aim of the course is to stimulate cooperation between students of the Department of Photography at the Prague Film School FAMU (Studio of Documentary Photography) and the students of the Department of Sociology, ISS FSS CU, in finding a common artistic and research intent. The course is theoretically and conceptually embedded in visual sociology, visual anthropology, and artistic research, with the idea of exploring the possibilities of blending these perspectives. Methodologically, it also draws on close relation between visual genres such as documentary photography on the one hand and visual sociology and anthropology on the other.

Aim of the course

Last update: Ludmila Maria Wladyniak, M.A., Ph.D. (06.02.2020)

 

Scientific knowledge

•  to give students the possibility to conduct their own research project within the filed of visual sociology and anthropology

•  to help students develop self-reflexivity in the process of research

 

Academic competences

•  to let students explore themselves

•  to broaden students’ experience in visual sociology and anthropology

•  to develop creativity

•  to develop photographic skills

 

Social competences

•  to help students develop independent and critical thinking

•  to show usability of sociological approach outside the academic environment

•  to teach students learn the ability to cooperate in cross-discipline groups and environment

Course completion requirements

Last update: Ludmila Maria Wladyniak, M.A., Ph.D. (11.02.2019)

•  active participation in classes

•  final project

Literature

Last update: Ludmila Maria Wladyniak, M.A., Ph.D. (06.02.2020)

John Grady (2001) Becoming a Visual Sociologist. Sociological Imagination, no 1/2, vol. 38, p. 83-106. 

Douglas Harper (2012)  ‘Visual Sociology’, London and New York: Routledge

Gillian Rose (2002) ‘Visual Methodologies’, SAGE Publications

Syllabus

Last update: Ludmila Maria Wladyniak, M.A., Ph.D. (06.02.2020)

The course takes place every two weeks in order to give students maximum time for self-exploration. The whole semester is devoted to one subject that is to be fully investigated by students through the means of documentary photography.