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This semester I had a lot of subjects that I really like and enjoy, but I think that “Imagen y Sociedad” is the one that I like the most.

“Imagen y Sociedad” is a subject that studies the role of images as a message transmitter and how society gives them different meanings depending on certain time and cultures beliefs.

One of the reasons I like this subject is because in our times and as a generation, we are part of a visual culture where everything we say or think it has to have an image to represent it. Actually, more than a 70% of the information that we receive in one day is delivered through our vision.  So, I’m into this topic, because of the power and impact that images have in our life.

Over the course of the semester, we have been studying different types of images, as religious, iconic, symbolic, and more.

To evaluate this course, we have weekly activities where we have to apply all the contents we had seen in class, and also, we do little essays and presentations based in specifics topics that are previously selected by us.
Resultado de imagen para visual

Comentarios

  1. Unknown5 de agosto de 2018 a las 23:06


    I had that class last year with Rafael Del Villar, the truth was quite strange, I could not say if I really learned something.

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  2. Daniela B19 de agosto de 2018 a las 13:46

    I had that subject with another name, but I think is really important and interesting because, as you said, we live in a visual culture.

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  3. Martin Quevedo20 de agosto de 2018 a las 14:52

    That class is very fun, I think my teacher was mateos and it was quite nice.

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