Courses

Are you taking pictures? I am sure you have a lot of photos, picturing your life, family, and friends. Are you interested to learn how to work with visual information and get a new experience in visual history, working with photo collections? What photographs can tell us about the past, society, politics, culture, and everyday life? In class “Seeing the Past: History in Photographs” you will learn how to “look” at photographs as primary sources and see “invisible” in photos, how to use photographs as documents which tell stories about people and historical events. We will be exploring digital photo collections to examine visual history of different countries and regions, empires and their colonies, and global and local conflicts from the mid-nineteenth century to nowadays. We will also work with the photo collections in the IU archives, libraries, and museums.

Catalog Information: HIST-W 200  ISSUES IN WORLD HISTORY

GenEd Information: Approved for the Social & Historical Studies requirement of the IU Bloomington General Education program. Approved for the World Cultures requirement of the IU Bloomington General Education program.