In this course students will learn how the social meaning of everyday life changes when expressed through or documented in words, sounds or still or moving images. Emphasis will be placed upon the everyday experiences of people who move through the world without one or more senses, as well as specific artistic mediums which emphasize one or another sense, namely cooking, radio, photography, movies and sculpture. Students will learn about different cultures associated with one or another sense (such as deaf or blind culture) and the forms of media created by these cultures (such as sign language and braille), different social movements associated with these cultures and how medical definitions and media representations of these cultures (and states of being) have changed since the early 1900s. Students will also consider how these cultures (and state of being) parallel and/or intersect with the development of different broadcast and digital forms of media.
- Teacher: Audrey Sprenger