Visual Sociology - YBA351

• Title: Visual Sociology
• Guaranteed by: Programme Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, MC [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: cancelled
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Ludmila Maria Dobrovolná Wladyniak, M.A., Ph.D.
• Incompatibility : YBAJ351
• Is incompatible with: YBLS015, YBAJ351

Annotation

English

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.

Last update: Dobrovolná Wladyniak Ludmila Maria, M.A., Ph.D. (19.09.2018)

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Last update: Beranová Eva, Mgr. (07.08.2018)

Course completion requirements

REQUIREMENTS & ASSESSMENT

 

•       active participation in classes

•       final project

•       attendance - 70%

Last update: Dobrovolná Wladyniak Ludmila Maria, M.A., Ph.D. (24.09.2018)

Syllabus

COURSE PROGRAM

 

1.   Introduction to the course

 

2.   Reading pictures - visiting the exhibition

 

3.     History of image and photography

 

4.     Workshop I – urban ethnography

 

5.     Workshop II – urban ethnography

 

6.   Contemporary visual culture

 

7.   War photography

  

8.     Photography and its social functions

 

9.     Methods I: photo-documentation 

 

10.  Methods II: photo-elicitation 

 

11. Presentation of students’ projects

 

Last update: Dobrovolná Wladyniak Ludmila Maria, M.A., Ph.D. (24.09.2018)