Visual Cultures

Recommended Prerequisites

Social Sciences, Philosophy, working knowledge of the English language (reading skills).

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 must 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.

Learning Outcomes

The student must be able to:

(1) To acquire critical skills that could allow an understanding of concepts and thematic circumscriptions of the history of Psychiatry science.

(2) To acquire critical skills that could allow a dominion over the knowledge about Psychiatry and forensic Psychiatry, with special reference to the Portuguese case.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The course unit 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 consumptionwill be the research domains circumscribed. 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

Assessment
The project presentation is worth 5p (0-20); the written work is worth 15p (0-20). The work will be made in groups composed by no more than 3 students and will be discussed with the teacher: 100.0%

Bibliography

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

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