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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:3 / 4.5
Course supervisor:Alnis Stakle
Study type:Full time
Course level:Bachelor
Target audience:Communication Science
Language:Latvian
Branch of science:Communication Sciences

Objective

To develop the visual language and theoretical and practical knowledge of students about photography as one of the strongest communication tools nowadays.

Prerequisites

None.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

• To know the role of documentary photographs in reflecting social, economic and political problems.
• To understand the main tasks of documentary photography and its differences from other genres of photography.
• To analyse and compare the relationship between photography and text in press.
• To discuss and define different narrative techniques in photographs.

Skills

• To independently create photographs on a single topic to communicate any socially, economically or politically important problem.
• To create photographs in accordance with the requirements of photo news agencies.
• To critically analyse the use of photography in media.
• To differentiate different messages and contexts in representation of photography.

Competence

• To evaluate the reality when using information for the creation of a photo story.
• Self-critical attitude to photographs in media.
• Self-critical attitude to the compliance of own photographs with the generally accepted quality criteria.
• To determine the ability of photographs to articulate some message and to evaluate the importance of this message.

Study course planning

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