Bachelor
2023/2024
Politics and Western Art from Antiquity to Modernity. Advanced English
Type:
Elective course (HSE/NES Programme in Economics)
Area of studies:
Economics
Delivered by:
Undergraduate Programmes Curriculum Support
Where:
Faculty of Economic Sciences
When:
2 year, 3, 4 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Contact hours:
64
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Human experience in the XXI century is dominated by the visual culture more than ever before. Images from satellite photographs to medical 3d animation, to TV commercials and reproductions of Renaissance masterpieces on home textiles and i-Pad covers permeate everyday life. For many life itself is mediated by television, film and virtual environments of the cyberspace. Engaging with the visual culture, understanding and interpreting its phenomena is an important skill for developing visual literacy which in the recent decades has become a major field of crossdisciplinary research. The course is designed for students at an advanced level of English.
Learning Objectives
- To explore various forms of visual culture, to analyze some of the key ideas used in its interpretation
- To explore various forms of visual culture, to analyze some of the key ideas used in its interpretation.
- To outline social contexts in which the forms of visual culture are produced, distributed and consumed.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Can find, analyze and use information from different sources
- Can understand, analyze, and criticize the ideas of others with the aim of constructing and presenting your own argument in an academically rigorous and persuasive way
- Can learn, improve skills in the different than professional area
Course Contents
- PART 1 The Nature of Art
- PART 2 The Art We Face
- PART 3 The Visual in the Society
- PART 4 Mass Culture – Living after Modernity
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Corinne HÉLIN. (2011). The visual culture reader. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.A6F0B04
- Jenks, C. (1995). Visual Culture. In Visual Culture (p. 1). Taylor & Francis Ltd / Books. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=sih&AN=17365280
- The Visual Commons: Counter-Power in Photography from Slavery to Occupy Wall Street. (2016). Germany, Europe: Humanities Commons. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.4BA0552D
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Adelmann, R., Leonhardt, N., Liebsch, D., Fahr, A., & Katenhusen, I. (2014). Visual Culture Revisited : German and American Perspectives on Visual Culture(s). [Place of publication not identified]: Herbert von Halem Verlag. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=922896
- Images of Dutchness: Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliché. (2018). Netherlands, Europe: Amsterdam University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.79C8644C