ANTH 3010 - Visual Anthropology

• Students will be able to describe major theory and methods in visual anthropology.
• Students will be able to assess the ethics of representation and the politics of images in relation to cross-cultural research and communication.
• Students will be able to demonstrate self-reflexivity about their biases and expectations in addressing visual representation with special attention to questions of positionality and identity markers such as race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality and ability.
• Students will be able to investigate complex questions of other cultures in a rigorous and systematic manner, and to articulate answers to these questions that reflect a sensitivity to cultural difference.
• Students will be able to interpret intercultural experience from their own and others’ worldview and to act in an open and supportive manner, without judgment, that recognizes the feelings of another cultural group.
• Students will be able to make effective anthropological arguments through visual and written representation and communicate those arguments to a public audience.