Admission Requirements
Only CADS students who have succesfully completed the second year course Visual Anthropology can enrol in this course.
This course is open to the following categories of students:
Bachelor’s CADS students of the MMM speciaslisation
Premaster’s CADS admitted for this specific course during their application procedure
NB: This course is an admission requirement for the specialisation of Visual Ethnography within the master’s programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology.
Course Description
The course provides a detailed analysis of the epistemological affordances of multimodal techniques in anthropological research. By closely analysing masterful author’s strategies, students engage with different methods (drawing, photography, film, sound recording, and programming) to understand how each can contribute to building a methodology and operationalising research questions. Students reproduce and experiment with the creative strategies the course presents them for each medium. Practical assignments will help the students to proactively craft, reflect on, and write about the affordances that creative methods provide. The assignments will importantly show how media making is an act of care for the subject and research interlocutors.
Course Objectives
Consolidation of the use of multimodality and creative methods for research
Deepening media literacy on multiple registers and learning to recognize informed decisions in crafting media.
Learning how to use audiovisual and digital methods to express care for and with research interlocutors.
Learning to reflect on, and write about the process of operationalizing a research question using a creative/multimodal methodology.
Schedule
Dates and room numbers can be found on the website.
Mode of Instruction
This is a 10 ECTS course, which means 280 hours of study (1 ECTS is equivalent to 28 study hours or sbu's).
Lectures (8 x 2 hours = 16)
Workshops (2 x 3 hours = 6)
Tutorials (3 x 3 hours = 9) – 4 workgroups
Independent-study (online lectures) (ca. 10 hours)
Literature readings & viewings. ca. 240 pages of selected reading + 8 multimodal media viewing (ca. 60 hours)
Field Exercises (ca. 24 hours)
Group Assignments (ca.90 hours)
Final Project (ca. 60 hours)
Matinees (ca 10 hours)
Assessment Method
Field Exercises (AV Assignments) (20%)
Group Assignments (10% , 20%, and 25% totaling 55%)
Final exhibition (15%)
Matinees (10%)
Registration in My Studymap
Registration for the lectures in My Studymap is mandatory for all students. Registration closes 5 days before the start of the course. Carefully read all information about the procedures and deadlines for registering for courses and exams.
Students need not register for the examination via My Studymap, because this course does not include a single final examination.
Brightspace
Brightspace is the digital learning environment of Leiden University. Brightspace gives access to course announcements and electronic study material. Assignments will also be submitted in Brightspace. Announcements about and changes to courses are made using Brightspace. Students are advised to check Brightspace daily to remain informed about rooms, schedules, deadlines, and details of assignments. Lecturers assume that all students read information posted on Brightspace.
How to login:
The homepage for Brightspace is: Brightspace
Please log in with your ULCN-account and personal password. On the left you will see an overview of My Courses.
For access to your courses in Brightspace you need to be registered in My Studymap for those courses.
Study material
To be announced