GEOG 189
Visual Geography
This is a practice-based course in which students will shoot and edit photographic works that document and interpret the landscape and people along San Pablo Avenue from Oakland to Hercules, CA. Through the process of making photographs, analyzing them, editing them into a body of work, and critiquing them along the way, this course will engage with questions of how photography can help us understand the people we encounter and the spaces we move through everyday.
Topics
- Shoot and edit photographs that express ideas about physical and human geography. Have a deeper sense of the East Bay’s unique ethnic and racial diversity and it’s complicated history in regards to racial and spatial dynamics. Have a solid foundation in techniques and concepts used in visual geography and documentary photography. Learn a professional process for photographic editing, printing, and delivery.
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027