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After this course, students will be able to:
- comprehend and critically reflect on the ways in which visual images have formed a body of meaningful signs in European and American media;
- critically process diverse theoretical perspectives; develop specific visual and verbal skills for observing, reading, analyzing, describing and critiquing visual imagery from a range of theoretical perspectives;
- reflect critically on the methods and theories used in texts by other researchers, using given criteria for evaluation (language/style, structure, critical use of theories, correct referencing system and bibliography). Through this, he/she will also be able to reflect critically on his/her own texts.
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Visual Culture is a new and expanding field, with its intellectual roots in (post)structuralism and Cultural Studies. Central to the study of visual culture are questions about the nature of images, the interrelation between text and image, intermediality, and the crucial role of "looking" and "seeing" for our society. This course deals with the study of visual images in a cultural and historical context. Students will develop and explore questions about the ways in which images form a foundation of knowledge in the modern and post-modern world. The course is based on a broad array of images that are not necessarily "art" in the traditional sense in order to understand the ways that ideas are communicated in a visual form. From film and television to advertising, fashion, and the internet, our society has turned to images to shape opinion, inform, educate, and entertain. Visual Culture is the attempt to understand the mechanisms and cultural logics at work in these processes. |
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