Visual Cultures

Year
2

Academic year
2014-2015

Code
02010244

Subject Area
Sociology and other studies

Language of Instruction
Portuguese

Other Languages of Instruction
English

Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face

Duration
SEMESTRIAL

ECTS Credits
6.0

Type
Compulsory

Level
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado

Recommended Prerequisites

N/A

Teaching Methods

Construction of a synthesis work. 20 pp., ½ spaces, 3cm of margins, with a visual component and respecting the Harvard bibliographic norm. The work most show an abstract and a set of 5 key-words. It should have also a reflection about the coherence between the hypothesis suggested and the methods in use.

The work will be made in groups composed by no more than 3 students and will be discussed with the teacher.

Learning Outcomes

The student must be able to:

(1) acquire a set of methodological useful instruments intended to the investigation of images and its contexts;

(2) acquire critical skills that could allow an understanding of visuality and about the ubiquity of visuality in contemporary cultures.

Work Placement(s)

Syllabus

The course of Visual Cultures, aims to provide the student with a set of methodological useful instruments intended to the investigation of images and its contexts.

Production, composition and social effects, appropriations and consumption will be the research domains circunscribed. To this purpose, the programme will follow closely the work developed by Gillian Rose in Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching With Visual Methodologies (2001), which is perceived as a magnificent example of methodological systematization.

Head Lecturer(s)

Luís Fernando Gomes da Silva Quintais

Assessment Methods

Assessement
Project: 25.0%
Synthesis work: 75.0%

Bibliography

Berger, J. (1972), Ways of Seeing, 1ª edição, Londres, Penguin.

Levell, N. (2001), «The Poetics and Prosaics of Making Exhibitions: a Personal Reflection on The Centenary Gallery», Antropologia Portuguesa, 18, pp. 151-194.

MacDonald, S. (ed.) (1998) The Politics of Display: Museums, Science, Culture, 1ª edição, Londres e Nova Iorque, Routledge.

Mitchell, W.J.T. (2002), «Showing Seeing: a Critique of Visual Culture», Journal of Visual Culture, 1 (2), 165-182

Rose, G. (2001), Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching With Visual Methodologies, 1ª edição, Londres, Sage.