Teaching Qualitative Methods: a Course Visual Methods in Social Sciences and its Place within Sociol

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Teaching Qualitative Methods a Course Visual
Methods in Social Sciences and its Place within
Sociology Program

• Viktoriya Sereda
• Alushta, 2008

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Program structure
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Course structure and description

• Visual Methodologies in Social Sciences

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Evaluation
Course is evaluated according to the following
criteria and 100 point scale is used
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Teaching methods
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Traditional

• Lecture (is used to introduce students to topic
  that is studied and to explain selected aspects
  of the theme). Lectures take no more than 1/3 of
  classroom time (with a few topic being an
  exception)
• 2/3 of classroom time is used for seminar
  discussions (where active learning methods are
  applied).

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Interactive

• presentations (presentation of some topics,
  articles, research results by students),
• group work (groups of students are assigned some
  in-class or out-of-class research tasks with
  following presentation and discussion of the
  results),
• discussions and debates (using different active
  learning methods) on pre-defined hot issues in
  the field
• case studies (analysis of different case studies
  giving students a case to resolve)

• critical review of mandatory readings (each class
  students have to submit 1 page critical review of
  mandatory literature assigned for this class),
• utilization of visual materials (pictures,
  photographs, illustrations, advertisements,
  documentary films, Internet web-sites and other
  audio-visual materials is used during classes),
• excursions (e.g. to museum).

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Reviewers comments

• Reviewer Tejdore Gerber

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• One potential risk is that the case study
  analysis will focus on purely substantive debates
  and issues rather than on the construction of
  meanings. For example, I can see a session on
  the analysis of how gender is constructed in
  advertisements devolving into a debate over
  feminism or whether men and women are equal. I
  think the way the case study units are organized
  an initial presentation, followed by field work
  should go a long way toward keeping students
  focused on the methodological issues and tasks.

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• The requirement that students complete their own
  visual project and present it to the class seems
  like an innovative and potentially very
  constructive assignment. If I understand
  correctly, students required to produce images
  (or some other form of visual data) that
  communicate an idea or perspective about social
  phenomenon. This seems like a great assignment
  for a class in art, design, or even marketing.
  But Im not sure how the successful completion of
  such a project is necessarily linked to mastery
  of the analytical techniques covered in the
  course. Of course, students might well deploy
  the semiotic or psychoanalytic techniques in
  reverse to figure out how to make their visual
  data communicate more effectively. But they
  might also complete this assignment without any
  reference to the methodologies they learned in
  the course especially if they already have a
  background in art, photography, or graphic
  design. It might be worth considering that the
  students supplement their creative work with a
  short paper explaining how it is informed by one
  or more of the methodologies covered in the
  course.
• a brief paper summarizing the methodological
  framework that informed the visual project.

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• Application of discussed theories and methods
• Technical skills
• Understanding of reactivity
• Understanding of difficulties of incorporation of
  visual into research papers

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Course amendments
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• Introduced two more lectures in
• THEORY AND METHODOLOGY

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• Prepared list of mini-projects to be conducted in
  groups before each seminar to intensify
  discussions about theory/methods as well as case
  studies. Important to give first-hand experience
  in application of each method.
• Upgraded evaluation system, where new tasks were
  taken into consideration
• Revised literature
• Developed electronic reader (first draft)
• Created data base of visual images, which I use
  for teaching purposes

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Thank you for your attention!

• Questions, Comments?