<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><font color="#000000">FYI</font><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Michael Guggenheim <<a href="mailto:migug@BLUEWIN.CH">migug@BLUEWIN.CH</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>MA Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">19 Feb 2014 13:15:06 GMT+1<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><a href="mailto:GWTF-TALK@LISTSERV.DFN.DE">GWTF-TALK@LISTSERV.DFN.DE</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Michael Guggenheim <<a href="mailto:migug@BLUEWIN.CH">migug@BLUEWIN.CH</a>><br></span></div><br><div>
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Note that the degree below has a strong STS bent.<br>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Consolas;
color:#1E1E1E" lang="EN-US">**PLEASE CIRCULATE to
undergraduates**<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria;
color:#1E1E1E" lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria;
color:#1E1E1E" lang="EN-US">MA VISUAL SOCIOLOGY<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria;
color:#1E1E1E" lang="EN-US">SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, GOLDSMITHS,
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria;
color:#1E1E1E" lang="EN-US">Exploring sociological issues
through visual, sensory and inventive methods</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria; color:#1E1E1E" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria;
color:#1E1E1E" lang="EN-US">Drawing on Goldsmiths’ strengths
in Visual Sociology, creative and critical social analysis and
experimental approaches in Science and Technology Studies,
this programme is designed for students who are interested in
new ways of exploring and understanding the social world
through the use of visual, sensory and other inventive
methods.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria;
color:#1E1E1E" lang="EN-US"></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria; color:#1E1E1E" lang="EN-US">The MA in Visual Sociology provides an
introduction to the range of debates in visual and sensory
sociology, encouraging you to build on these by using visual
and sensory methodological practices to carry out critical
social research in your areas of interest, such as
contemporary capitalism, ‘race’ and ethnicity,
postcolonialism, gender and sexual cultures, human rights,
biotechnology, globalisation or other aspects of social life.<o:p></o:p></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria;
color:#1E1E1E" lang="EN-US">The programme combines lectures
and seminars with practical sessions and workshop-based
projects in which you develop a hands-on approach to
sociological research, providing a skills base in methods that
could be used in public sector contexts, art/media research,
design or the commercial world. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Consolas;color:#1E1E1E" lang="EN-US">The course is suitable for applicants from a wide
variety of backgrounds, including art, design, anthropology,
media and communications, and sociology.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;color:#1E1E1E" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria;
color:#1E1E1E" lang="EN-US">The MA in Visual Sociology is
offered by the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths,
University of London. It begun in September 2013, and current
students on the course say this about the programme and their
reasons for studying on it:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria;
color:#1E1E1E" lang="EN-US">‘My initial background is
graphic design, and although I really enjoy working with
visual media I have always felt I wanted to learn more, and
perhaps be able to think about the world and my role within
the world in a more interesting way. […] The MA in Visual
Sociology was the only course I found that was trying to do
something new, trying to use other ways to understand
society and giving space for innovative ways research it.
[…] I feel that we have been giving a lot of space to be
experimental and I found all the projects we’ve developed so
far are very interesting and exciting’.</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria;color:#1E1E1E" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria;
color:#1E1E1E" lang="EN-US">‘I have a background in
experimental film and came to the MA in Visual Sociology as
I wanted to engage with sociological methods and theory. The
course is challenging and as it's such a new discipline
students are encouraged to think in innovative and
experimental ways and put those into practice’.</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria; color:#1E1E1E" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria;
color:#1E1E1E" lang="EN-US">‘one of the benefits of the
programme is the wide range of methods which it explores.
One can get hands-on experience with photography, film,
sound recording, editing and more. Students are encouraged
to bring their own ideas to class using unusual methods like
drawing and even cooking. It is highly experimental and
would be suited for people looking to explore the
possibilities of sensory methods in sociology within
academic or other contexts. I applied to this course because
I love Sociology but I didn't want to be confined to
traditional text based methods of sharing knowledge’.</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria;color:#1E1E1E" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria;
color:#1E1E1E" lang="EN-US">For further information and
contact details:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria;
color:#1E1E1E" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-visual-sociology/"><span style="color:#0E24B2;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-visual-sociology/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria;
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Dr. Michael Guggenheim
Senior Lecturer/Senior Research Fellow
Department of Sociology
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London
SE14 6NW
UK
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:m.guggenheim@gold.ac.uk">m.guggenheim@gold.ac.uk</a>
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