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History in Images : a critical approach [ LHIST1400 ]


3.0 crédits ECTS  22.5 h   2q 

Ce cours bisannuel est dispensé en 2011-2012, 2013-2014, ...

Teacher(s) Van Ypersele Laurence (coordinator) ; Van den Abeele Baudouin ;
Language French
Place
of the course
Louvain-la-Neuve
Prerequisites

Taking 15 hours of course introducing methods of image analysis (ARKE 1255) or demonstrating equivalent proficiency.

Main themes

The course will be organized in three phases :
- 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.

Aims

By the end of this instruction, students should be trained in using the figurative as sources for the historian :
- retracing the past; - using realia (landscapes, infrastructures, tools, etc. ...);
- perceiving mental and collective representations;
- understanding their links with political, economic and social history.

Evaluation methods

Evaluation : Based on three written works.

Content

The course deepens the critical approach to figurative documents of various types, from antiquity to the contemporary period, shedding light on critical problems posed by their typology, heuristics and interpretation. After a general methodological introduction to image analysis, the course takes up the more specific analysis of older images and more contemporary images, with briefer glances at mobile images (cinema, television). Students are invited to react to these analyses, and then to take part.

Bibliography

Teaching materials : Student notes.

Other information

Teaching : At least two co-teachers.

Cycle et année
d'étude
> Bachelor in History
> Master [120] in Information and Communication Science and Technology
> Bachelor in Ancient and Modern Languages and Literatures
> Bachelor in Information and Communication
> Bachelor in Philosophy
> Bachelor in Engineering : Architecture
> Bachelor in Ancient languages and Literatures : Classics
> Bachelor in Modern Languages and Literatures: German, Dutch and English
> Bachelor in Psychology and Education: General
> Bachelor in Economics and Management
> Bachelor in Motor skills : General
> Bachelor in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General
> Bachelor in Human and Social Sciences
> Bachelor in Modern Languages and Literatures : General
> Bachelor in Sociology and Anthropology
> Bachelor in Political Sciences: General
> Bachelor in History of Art and Archaeology : General
> Bachelor in Ancient Languages and Literatures: Oriental Studies
> Bachelor in Mathematics
> Bachelor in Biomedicine
> Bachelor in Pharmacy
> Bachelor in Religious Studies
Faculty or entity
in charge
> HIST


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