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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Social and Political Science : Social Anthropology

Undergraduate Course: Pictures: The Anthropology of Images and Mediation (SCAN10060)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Social and Political Science CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryIn a world full of pictures, how can we understand and critically comment on the images that surround us and on the media through which they appear? Drawing on visual and media anthropology, this course will give you the intellectual and practical skills to think and write about, as well as make, the pictures with which we live.
Course description How to understand the pictures that surround us and by which we live? This course will give you the skills to understand and analyse pictures as more than a mirror of a reality that exists outside of images and their media. We will explore visual and media anthropology literature, plus texts from art history, cultural studies, philosophy and media studies, as well as investigate image making practices and (audio)visual artefacts, to understand how pictures make the world in which we live.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2018/19, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  27
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 22, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 174 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) This course will take an innovative approach towards assessment. Assessment combines a written essay drawing on the course literature of 2500 words (50%) with a portfolio including three separate practical exercises (still, video, blog 10% each) and written and oral (peer-)review (10%) and critique (10%). This mode of assessment will allow different students to draw upon their individual strengths
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Critically understand and analyse images and processes of mediation from within an anthropological framework;
  2. Demonstrate good familiarity with the key thinkers, theoretical debates and concepts that have shaped visual and media anthropology
  3. Use some of the practical audio-visual skills of media and visual anthropologists
  4. Write insightfully about audio-visual media for both academic and non-academic audiences
  5. Use a blogging platform to present written and visual material produced by the student.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsVisual Anthropology,Media Ethnography,Images,Mediation
Contacts
Course organiserDr Lotte Hoek
Tel: (0131 6)50 6970
Email: lotte.hoek@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Siobhan Carroll
Tel: (0131 6)50 3079
Email: siobhan.carroll@ed.ac.uk
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