Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)

Course Description Status: Approved

Course Description Version: 25/26.R.1.00

Description Period: 2025./26 academic year rudens semestris

Study Course Accepted: -

Study Course Description

Static Image

Main Study Course Information

Course Code
KF_019
Branch of Science
Communication Theory; Media and communications
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Communication Science
LQF
Level 8
Study Type And Form
Full-Time

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor
Alnis Stakle
Structure Unit Manager
Ieva Puzo
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts

Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv

About Study Course

Objective

To strengthen the understanding of students about the use of static images in visual culture and to improve research competences for the analysis of static images.

Preliminary Knowledge

Knowledge and critical understanding of the history of static image, and the use of static images in visual culture.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

1.Capable of demonstrating that they know and understand latest scientific image theories and insights, know image research methodology.

Skills

1.Able to independently evaluate and select appropriate research methods for scientific research on static image, has made a contribution to supplementing of knowledge or skills or given new insights to existing knowledge and application thereof in practice, while implementing an original research. The research is qualified at the level of an internationally quotable publication.

Competences

1.Students independently propose up-to-date static image research ideas, plan, structure and are able to lead a personal research project on the use of static images in visual culture.

Assessment

Individual work

Title
% from total grade
Grade
1.

Individual work
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Preparation for seminars, study and learning of literature and information materials. Development of independent and group research projects. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal.

Examination

Title
% from total grade
Grade
1.

Examination
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Study course assessment – examination (50%). For the final assessment, all the homework must be done, submitted and presented during the seminars or consultations (50%). The examination grade is given for the development of own visual cultural research design.

Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME
Part 1

  1. Lecture

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Auditorium
2

Topics

Introduction to the course content. Static images and their use in contemporary culture.

  1. Lecture

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Auditorium
2

Topics

Introduction to static image research methodology.

  1. Class/Seminar

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Auditorium
2

Topics

Creation of the concept of a personal research project.

  1. Class/Seminar

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Auditorium
2

Topics

Creation of the concept of a personal research project.

  1. Lecture

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Auditorium
2

Topics

Analysis of the visual framing of images.

  1. Lecture

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Auditorium
2

Topics

Photography as part of a research project: documentation, manifestation and photo stories.

  1. Class/Seminar

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Auditorium
2

Topics

Presentation of a personal research project and evaluation in groups.

  1. Class/Seminar

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Auditorium
2

Topics

Presentation of a personal research project and evaluation in groups.
Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
16 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam

Bibliography

Required Reading

1.

Acton, M. (1997) Learning to Look at Paintings. London: Routledge.

2.

Adler, J. (1989) `Origins of sightseeing', Annals of Tourism Research 16: 7-29.

3.

Alpers, S. (1983) The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century. London: John Murray.

4.

Ang, I. (1989) `Wanted: Audiences. On the politics of empirical audience studies', in

5.

E. Seiter, H. Borchers, G. Kreutzner and E.-M. Warth (eds), Remote Control: Television, Audiences, and Cultural Power. London: Routledge, pp. 96-105.

6.

Back, L. and Quaade, V. (1993) `Dream utopias, nightmare realities: imagining race and culture within the world of Benetton', Third Text 22: 65-80.

7.

Ball M.S. and Smith, G.W.H. (1992) Analyzing Visual Data. London: Sage

8.

Barker, E. (ed.) (1999) Contemporary Cultures of Display. London: Yale University Press in association with The Open University.

9.

Barrett, M. (1991) The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault. Cambridge: Polity Press.

10.

Barthes, R. (1973) Mythologies. Translated by A. Lavers. London: Paladin.

11.

Barthes, R. (1977) Image-Music-Text. Edited and translated by S. Heath. London: Fontana.

12.

Barthes, R. (1982) Camera Lucida: Re¯ections on Photography. Translated by R. Howard. London: Jonathan Cape.

13.

Battersby, C. (1994) Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics. London: Women's Press. 69

14.

Baudrillard, J. (1988) Selected Writings. Edited by M. Poster. Cambridge: Polity

15.

Bourdieu, P. (1984) Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste.

16.

Bourdieu, P. and Darbel, A. with Schnapper, D. (1991) The Love of Art: European Art Museums and Their Public. Cambridge: Polity Press.

17.

Butler, J. (1990) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. London:

18.

Crary, J. (1992) Techniques of the Observer: Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century. London: MIT Press.

19.

Debord, G. (1983) Society of the Spectacle. Detroit: Black and Red, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

20.

Doane, M.A. (1991) Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis.

21.

Dyer, G. (1982) Advertising as Communication. London: Methuen.

22.

Dyer, R. (1990) Now You See It: Historical Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film.

23.

Elkins, J. (1994) The Poetics of Perspective. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

24.

Leiss, W., Kline, S. and Jhally, S. (1986) Social Communication in Advertising: Persons, Products and Images of Well-Being. London: Methuen.

25.

Mirzoeff, N. (1999) An Introduction to Visual Culture. London: Routledge.

26.

Mitchell,J. (1974) Psychoanalysis and Feminism. London: Allen Lane.

27.

Pryce, D. (1997) `Surveyors and surveyed: photography out and about', in L. Wells

28.

Stafford, B.M. (1996) Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images. London: MIT

29.

Weber, R.P. (1990) Basic Content Analysis. London: Sage.