Gender, Visuality and Technology

Course goals

Employing recent theories from gender and postcolonial studies, as well as media studies, this course analyses a wide range of case studies from contemporary visual culture, across a broad scope of genres and technologies. It will invite the students to critically think with concepts such as visuality, visual culture, representation and technology. Moreover, it will provide a novel approach to art, culture and technology by challenging the primacy of vision and by mobilizing an intersectional perspective. Students will learn to work with visual methodologies and analytic tools from the fields of semiotics, media studies and gender studies in order to be able to assess the ways in which social and cultural norms are disseminated in visual ways. In this way, the course provides a toolkit for thinking through the growing and often overwhelming array of images we are confronted with on a daily basis in our media saturated culture.
 

Content

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Additional information

Priority rules
This course has priority rules and a waiting list. Your enrolment is guaranteed if you

• are enrolled in the Gender Studies minor
• are a student in the BA Liberal Arts and Sciences or Taal- en Cultuurstudies and this course is part of your specialisation (kernpakket)
• are an exchange student and meet the course’s entry requirements

In all other situations, you will be placed on a waiting list if you enrol in this course. For any remaining slots in the course, lots are drawn among the students on the waiting list. 

schedule
Please note: the time slot shown here is not yet final, and may still be modified until the third Wednesday in September.