FROM WORK TO TEXT

Course Code:

Π-8060

Semester:

8st Semester

Course Hours:

5

ECTS:

5


Learning outcomes

The development of students’ knowledge and critical abilities in relation to the contemporary theoretical reason for photography developed in the context of Cultural Studies and Humanities

  • Focus on the critical thinking required to understand the photographic production practice
  • Developing skills for independent and personal learning
  • Understanding the necessity of research and the inherent specificities of different methods for producing theoretical and art work.
  • Ability to think and create structured concepts via reading theory texts
  • Ability to produce theory assignments
  • Ability to critical reading and analysing texts. 
  • Critical support of the project and its presentation
  • Osmosis in a rich, varied, challenging and experimental production of work.

 

General Competences

  • Research, analyze and synthesize data and information, using the necessary technologies
  • Adapt to new situations
  • Decision making
  • Autonomous work
  • Teamwork
  • Working in an international environment
  • Exercise of criticism and self-criticism
  • Project design and management
  • Respect for diversity and multiculturalism
  • Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Promote free, creative and inductive thinking

 

Course Outline

Lectures

The course aims at studying seminal theory texts of visual culture.
Thoughts on Representation

  • Walter Benjamin- Various texts
  • Siegfrid Kracauer –Various texts
  • Michel Foucault- Various texts
  • Peter Wollen- Various texts
  • Roland Barthes- Various texts
  • Christian Metz- Photography and the Fetish
  • Laura Mulvey- Visual and Other Pleasures

 

RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Andreadakis, S. N., & Vamvoukas, I. M. (2005). Guide to preparing and writing a written research paper. Athens: Atrapos.
  • Manousou, E. (2017). The skills of students preparing postgraduate research work, Athens: Hellenic Network of Open and Distance Education. https://gellym.pressbooks.com/
  • Bakirtzis, K. (2003). Communication and learning. Athens: Gutenberg.
  • Benjamin, W. (1994) ‘Charles Baudelaire. A lyricist at the height of capitalism’ (mtf. G. Gouzoulis), Alexandria Publications, Athens.
  • Language editing guide for writers (2014). Association of Greek Academic Libraries. Retrieved from https://www.openbook.gr/odigos-glwssikis-epimeleias-gia-syggrafeis/.
  • Barthes, R., Image Music Text, Plethron Publications, 2007.