History in Images : a critical approach
[HIST2400]
[30h] 5 credits
This course is taught in the 2d semester.
This two-yearly course is taught in 2011-2012, 2013-2014,...
Teacher(s): Baudouin Van den Abeele, Laurence Van Ypersele
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
- retracing the past;
- using realia (landscapes, infrastructures, tools, etc. ...);
- perceiving mental and collective representations;
- understanding their links with political, economic and social history.
Main themes
- relying on the general courses of the Bachelor's degree in history, the course deepens the critical approach to figurative documents of various types, from antiquity to the contemporary period, shedding light on critical problems posed at once by their typology, heuristics and interpretation;
- It involves a certain number of exercises analysing various types of images;
- It structures, synthesizes and tries to generalize on contributions resulting from solving problems arising due to recourse to the figurative sources analysed in the exercises.
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
(ARKE 1255) or demonstrating equivalent proficiency.
Evaluation : Based on three written works
Teaching materials : Student notes.
Teaching : At least two co-teachers.