Vision, Visuality and Everyday Life
CLT120
Overview
Level of study: What does Undergraduate Level 1 mean?
Undergraduate Level 1
EFTSL: What does EFTSL mean?
0.125
Delivery Method: What does delivery method mean?
Fully Online
Prerequisites: What are the prerequisites?
Duration:
13 weeks
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Domestic student fee:
$750.00 (AUD)
International student fee:
$975.00 (AUD)
Description
Visual culture brings together a range of theories, practices and texts that explore the relationship between vision, visuality and the way people act in their everyday lives. This unit introduces you to a variety of critical concepts used in the analysis of visual texts. Exploring a range of imagery and media, including film, television, photography and information technology, we look at the ways visual culture shapes (and is shaped by) our social worlds, our bodies and identities. In particular, we focus on relationships between the visual and normalising practices, contemporary politics, bodies and technologies. At the end of the unit, you will be familiar with basic aspects of visual cultural studies, the politicised aspects of visual texts and approaches to both their production and content.
Prerequisites
If you have no prior university experience, you should complete SSK12 or SSK13 before starting this unit.
Learning Outcomes
At the completion of this unit students will:
- be familiar with basic aspects (contemporary and historical) of visual cultural studies and be able to apply them through a variety of activities and analyses;
- have an understanding of the politicised aspects of visual texts and Cultural Studies approaches to both their production and content (as discourses, texts, lived realities);
- have an increased ability to critically review, analyse and synthesise findings, and be able to present work in a manner conforming to accepted academic standards in both written and spoken form;
- gain a deeper understanding of issues specific to Cultural Studies practice and its associated philosophical and political underpinnings.
Topics
This unit addresses the following topics.
| Number | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction: reading the visual |
| 2 | Culture and the visual |
| 3 | Scientific visuality and the construction of other |
| 4 | Re-imaging gender and sexuality |
| 5 | Technologies of visual representation |
| 6 | Virtual reality, digital being |
| 7 | Connecting and interacting with the visual |
| 8 | Film and ethics |
| 9 | Visual culture, consumer culture |
| 10 | Visuality, history, event and spectacle |
| 11 | Globalisation and visual culture |
| 12 | Bollywood, the international and beyond |
| 13 | Anti-colonial visuality |
Study Resources
This unit is delivered using the following methods and materials:
Instructional Methods
- Discussion Forum/Discussion Board
Print based materials
- Welcome Letter
Textbook information for this unit is currently being updated and will be available soon. Please check back regularly for updates. Alternatively, visit the Unibooks website and enter the unit details to search for available textbooks.
Relevant Courses
This unit is a core requirement in the following courses:
This unit is part of a major, minor, stream or specialisation in the following courses:
This unit may be eligible for credit towards other courses:
- Many undergraduate courses on offer through OUA include 'open elective' where any OUA unit can be credited to the course. You need to check the Award Requirements on the course page for the number of allowed open electives and any level limitations.
- In other cases, the content of this unit might be relevant to a course on offer through OUA or elsewhere. In order to receive credit for this unit in the course you will need to supply the provider institution with a copy of the Unit Profile in the approved format, which you can download here. Note that the Unit Profile is set at the start of the year, and if textbooks change this may not match the Unibooks textbook list.
