IMAGE, SOCIETY AND EDUCATION

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Learning Outcomes: 1. Examine how images impact the relationship between society and education. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explain the relationship between image, education and society vis-a-vis the relationship between the world, the teacher and the student. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze how the image impacts and changes the way we have come to know and be as teachers, as students, and as inhabitants of a world that moves beyond the confines of the school. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Develop a better understanding of how images inform the diverse ways by which we approach, understand, and practice education as teachers. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Survey specific themes directly informed by the image and its relationship with power and society. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Approach the study of images as a method, theory, and practice in educational research. Audience: Graduate 7. Engage with semiotics, social and cultural theory through one's own research projects and interests, with the aim of discovering new junctures that open other avenues and possibilities of being, knowing, making and doing. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Examine how images impact the relationship between society and education. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explain the relationship between image, education and society vis-a-vis the relationship between the world, the teacher and the student. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze how the image impacts and changes the way we have come to know and be as teachers, as students, and as inhabitants of a world that moves beyond the confines of the school. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Develop a better understanding of how images inform the diverse ways by which we approach, understand, and practice education as teachers. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Survey specific themes directly informed by the image and its relationship with power and society. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Approach the study of images as a method, theory, and practice in educational research. Audience: Graduate 7. Engage with semiotics, social and cultural theory through one's own research projects and interests, with the aim of discovering new junctures that open other avenues and possibilities of being, knowing, making and doing. Audience: Graduate