GEOG 189, Visual Geography

Catalog 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.

Units: 4.0

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor

Formats: 

Fall and/or Spring: 15 weeks - 9 hours of fieldwork per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of fieldwork per week

Grading Basis: Letter

Final Exam Status: Alternative to final exam


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