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GEOG 189 - Visual Geography

GeographyUndergraduateCLS - College of Letters and Science

Subject

GEOG

Course Number

189

Department

Course Level

Undergraduate

Course Title

Visual Geography

Course Description

This is a practice-based course in which students will shoot and edit photographic works that document and interpret the landscape and people along San Pablo Avenue from Oakland to Hercules, CA. Through the process of making photographs, analyzing them, editing them into a body of work, and critiquing them along the way, this course will
engage with questions of how photography can help us understand the people we encounter and the spaces we move through everyday.

Minimum

4

Maximum

4

Grading Basis

Default Letter Grade; P/NP Option

Method of Assessment

Alternative Final Assessment

Instructors

Wanek

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.

Course Objectives

Shoot and edit photographs that express ideas about physical and human geography. Have a deeper sense of the East Bay’s unique ethnic and racial diversity and it’s complicated history in regards to racial and spatial dynamics. Have a solid foundation in techniques and concepts used in visual geography and documentary photography. Learn a professional process for photographic editing, printing, and delivery.

Formats

Fieldwork

Term

Fall and Spring

Duration (in weeks)

15

Minimum Hours

3

Maximum Hours

3

Term

Summer

Duration (in weeks)

6

Minimum Hours

22

Maximum Hours

22