Economic Issues through a Photographer's Lens

Catalog description

This course teaches students how to observe the economic phenomena around them in a new way, via documentary photography or photojournalism (storytelling and communicating with pictures). The course requires reading and writing about both, photography and economic issues, as well as doing photography on a regular basis. In addition to advancing students' knowledge of micro and macroeconomics, the origins and consequences of economic growth, structure and functioning of financial markets and other hotly debated economic issues, the class emphasis is on what photographs mean to us, on doing documentary work, and on telling stories with photographs. Students' primary function will be to make storytelling images of the everyday events that occur in life, relate them to the economic issues and theories discussed in a classroom and communicate about their photographs in a written form.