Graduate Seminar in Photo & Related Medi

Visual Ecologies: Photography, Visual Justice and Environmental Activism. 
Graduate Seminar in Photo & Related Media

This course will explore the intersection of photography, nature, ecology, social and environmental activism, examining art’s role as a catalyst for change. Drawing from critical and historical approaches in photography, landscape studies, architecture, human rights, and interdisciplinary environmental studies, among others, this course offers an exploration of how images can address pressing environmental and social issues while revealing optimism, hope, and collective action in response to our present ecological condition, illuminating the geographies, histories, and ecologies of transformation, liberation, and everyday resistance.