Admission requirements
The following courses need to be passed:
Freshman's Class
Academic Skills II
Description
A photograph is often characterized as a snapshot, a mechanical representation of what happened to the camera for a fraction of a second. But photography appears to contain many more interesting reflections on time. While a photograph can capture the stillness of the photographed subject, manifesting the immutability of time in the photo, it can also create the illusion of motion when it deals with a moving subject, or when it creates a dynamic narrative in a photo series. Focusing on the concept of time in photography, this course asks: what are the temporal aspects of photography and how do they deal with the memoirs of the past? For instance, what happens to the experience of time of the spectator when looking at photo series, slide shows, and moving photos ('photo-film')? And how do these experiences differ from each other?
Moreover, since photographs are also important as original objects that carry histories, in this course we also make use of the famous photo collection of Leiden University.
Course objectives
Students learn about different manifestations of time in photography;
Students learn how to contextualise and summarise a current photographic debate in academic discourse;
Students will identify the divergences and convergences of photography with other media;
Students learn how to critically make use of academic skills material provided for second-year BA students;
Students learn to prepare and present a visually supported presentation and learn to respond effectively to questions and comments from the lecturer and fellow students;
Students learn to write an associated, clearly formulated piece of work of approximately 3000 words, excluding notes and literature;
Students become familiar with the photography collection of Leiden University.
Timetable
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Mode of instruction
Seminar
Research
Excursion
Assessment method
Assessment
Oral presentation (15%): a 10-minute PowerPoint presentation about own research
Research proposal as midterm exam (15%)
Final paper (70%): circa 3000 words, excluding notes and bibliography
Weighing
The weighted average of the (constituent) examinations must be at least 6.0 (= a pass). Grades lower than 5.0 for assignments are not allowed.
Resit
A resit/ rewrite can be done for constituent examinations which are failed. As far as applicable all resits/ rewrites take place at the same time, after the final (constituent) examination.
Inspection and feedback
How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.
Reading list
Literature will be announced on Brightspace prior to the start of the course.
Registration
Enrolment through uSis is mandatory.
General information about uSis is available on the website
Registration Studeren à la carte and Contractonderwijs
Not applicable
Contact
Remarks
N.a.