Visual Images in Social Sciences

How do social scientists use visual images?

What does a picture or image tell you? This course is an introduction to analyzing and interpreting photographs as social data. Who controls what the image is saying? You will look at how photographs provide visual evidence and how they can illustrate and support our ideas about society.

Course learning outcomes

After reading this course, you should be able to:

• Recognize how images can be analyzed and interpreted
• Comprehend how images can be used to express uncertainties
• Give examples of images that show change and social and cultural diversity.