Visual Culture: Theory and Methodology

Education facts

Code: KOVN07

<p>This course introduces you to key theories and methods in visual culture, focusing on how images communicate and influence knowledge, culture, and power. Topics include visuality, the gaze, cultural memory, semiotics, and the affective dimensions of image analysis.</p><p>This course introduces you to key theories, concepts, and methods within the field of visual culture. The focus is on how images are understood in relation to knowledge production, cultural context, and power structures. Topics such as visuality, the gaze, cultural memory, semiotics, and affective image theory are explored. </p><p>The course consists of lectures and seminars within an international and interdisciplinary classroom setting. The course is divided into two overlapping modules: one addressing core theoretical perspectives such as scopic regimes, modernity, and postcoloniality, while the second focuses on methods for image analysis. Students develop critical thinking and analytical skills through active engagement with theoretical and methodological discussions, enabling them to interpret visual materials from diverse perspectives.</p>

Entry requirements

90 first-cycle credits including a Bachelor?s degree project in one of the following fields: art history and visual studies, film studies, musicology, design studies, architecture, visual anthropology or the equivalent.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Visual Culture: Theory and Methodology

  Lund University

  Start date: 31 August 2026

  End date: 1 November 2026

  Pace of study: 100 %