Course: Visuality and Culture

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Course title Visuality and Culture
Course code KSA/VKU
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Czarnecki Szczepan Pavel, Mgr.
Course content
The course is taught in Czech. The programme of the course covers e.g.: 1. Visuality, visual respresntation, methods of analysis, plurality of perspectives and interpretations; 2. Visual representations of the "other"; 3. Photography; 4. Ethnographic Film; 5. Visuality and the Internet; 6. Visuality and identity; 7. Power of the image: authority, order, politics; 8. Visuality and religion; 10. Visuality and memory, etc.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Methods of Written Work, Projection (static, dynamic)
Learning outcomes
The course aims at developing the knowledge of analysing visual culture from the perspective of Cultural Anthropology. The course is taught in Czech.
After the successful completion of the course, the students are able to: know the approaches of Cultural Anthropology towards studying visual culture; analyse visual culture from the perspective of Cultural Anthropology. The course is taught in Czech.
Prerequisites
Not specified.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Final project

Presentation, written test, attendance of the lectures and seminars, readings.
Recommended literature
  • Grimshaw, A. (2001). The Ethnographer's Eye. Ways of Seeing in Anthropology. Cambridge.
  • Heider, K. (2006). Ethnographic Film. Revised Edition.. Austin.
  • Mirzoeff, Nikolas. An Introduction to Visual Culture. Routledge, London, New York 1999.
  • Rose, Gillian. (2011). Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials. London: Sage.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Cultural Anthropology (2019) Category: Philosophy, theology 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Cultural Anthropology (2019) Category: Philosophy, theology 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: -