MFC4073 - Reading Photographs and Making Meaning

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

The module’s aim is to give you the opportunity to begin to develop a stylistic, aesthetic and intellectual orientation for your future work. You will work on a number of published works and photographers in order to read, analyse, apply and interpret the content discussed in class.

You will be guided through the practice of analysing and interpreting photographs from historical, stylistic and aesthetic viewpoints. Key historical movements, trends and styles will be marked out and considered from different perspectives, including: representations of reality, photographic composition, visual culture, narrative structure, etc.

Throughout the module, the students will be exposed to the concept of digital remediation in order to better understand the technical, aesthetic and cultural shift from analogue to digital.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Lectures
Hours: 40
Intended Group Size: 15

Guided independent study
Hours: 260

Further details relating to assessment
Assignment 1: Individual presentation. The topic of the presentation has to be decided in advance with the module tutor. The presentation will be evaluated by a panel of experts in the area.

Assignment 2: Photo-essay. This will be a reflective visual and written analysis on one or more of the topics analysed in class and will consist of 6 original photos + 750 words.

Assignment 3: Programme Level Assessment undertaken in the Integrated Assessment Period.

Early Assessment: there will be a formative assessment within the first 4 weeks and this will help unpack the assignment details for the 1st assignment as well as guide and inform student preparation and help introduce the University grading system.

Assessment:

001 Individual Presentation; 5 mins; end of semester 1 30%
002 Photo Essay; 1,500 word equiv; end of semester 2 50%
003 Programme level assessment; 600 words; integrated assessment period 20%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Katrin Joost
Level - 4
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 4YL

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