Taking Charge - Reinventing Photography II

(excerpt from syllabus)

Objectives:

First: We will all spend these 17 weeks trying to become better

photographers and trying to figure out what a “better photographer” is.

Second: We will all spend the semester contemplating through word and

deed the meaning of the phrase “social justice”. 

Third: We will all spend the semester learning and, more importantly,

learning how to learn better than we do now.

Social Justice/Environmental Responsibility

As part of Guilford’s curriculum you are all required to take a Social Justice/Environmental Responsibility course. Photo II meets that requirement. If we are successful you will, by the end of the course, be able to do the following:

1.  Articulate and evaluate possible meanings of justice and responsibility in relation to society and/or the environment.

2.  Describe and evaluate institutions, structures, institutions, structures, ideologies, and/or power relations that (1) produce and reproduce social inequalities which oppress humanity, and/or (2) degrade the environment.

3.  Describe and evaluate institutions, structures, ideologies, and/or power relations which empower people, enhance life, and/or sustain the environment.

4.  Describe and evaluate possible methods of actively pursuing change at the personal, social, and/or institutional levels.