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Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Course Overview
With a short duration of 4 weeks this Pictures of Youth: An Introduction to Children’s Visual Culture certification course is the joint creativity of digital platform FutureLearn and the University of York. This Creative Arts, and Media online programme is here to let the candidates explore the children’s visual culture capabilities. This course was developed keeping in mind the increasing importance of media literacy among children, and the rise of concern in parents.
Pictures of Youth: An Introduction to Children’s Visual Culture training offers a wide variety of deciphering techniques of visual media, and also helps candidates get an understanding of ways in which these media sources can be consumed. They also can make an analysis of their own by giving 3 hours of their weekly time to this course.
Pictures of Youth: An Introduction to Children’s Visual Culture certification syllabus is made up of the different popular cultures of film, drama, television, comics, and even picture books which are mainly consumed by young children. The end of this weekly programme will provide a deep understanding of the types of these visual cultures.
The Highlights
- Course on children’s visual culture
- 4 full weeks course
- Weekly 3 hour sessions
- FutureLearn certification
- Learn with own self
Programme Offerings
- 4 Weeks Course
- Online Course
- 2 Hours Weekly Sessions
- Certificate of completion
- Progress Mapping
- Global Classroom
- self paced course
- Accredited Course
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|
| yes | Futurelearn |
Pictures of Youth: An Introduction to Children’s Visual Culture Fee Structure
Description | Amount in INR |
| Buy this course (one-off payment) | 2,763.36 |
| Subscribe & save | 6,500 |
| Limited access | Free |
Eligibility Criteria
Educational Qualification
Participants can possess any kind of formal or informal education for this programme.
Work Experience
Whatever history of work experience a candidate may be having they can apply for the course.
Certification Qualifying Details
If candidates want the Pictures of Youth: An Introduction to Children’s Visual Culture certification by FutureLearn they have to mandatorily wrap up the content in the course modules, and its correlated assessments.
What you will learn
The visual culture course provides an understanding of the following concepts:
- Candidates shall learn to evaluate images critically, and understand drawings made from visual analysis and studies.
- Picturebooks of children have a visual-verbal interplay that can be interpreted by the candidates.
- Candidates can explain any imaginative work that is required by young viewers.
- Participants will be discussing the traditional visual culture of children and how their childhood is represented.
- Learners will learn to reflect the place of images that represents a child’s development.
Who it is for
This visual culture course is a very popular course for anyone who possesses some kind of interest in contemporary education, and also topics on culture. This course is gaining popularity since new media, and visual analysis is becoming an adapted culture for children whose parents feel the nostalgia related to their own usage of text, and media in their youth.
Admission Details
Taking admission into this course only requires candidates going through the process explained below:
Step 1: Visit the course website.
Step 2: Then candidates will necessarily have to click on the ‘Join course for free’ button.
Step 3: The clicking of the above-mentioned button will open a registration form for the new candidates.
Step 4: On this page, candidates can make a new registration or use an old account to log in.
Step 5: As soon as candidates complete registration they are allowed admission and course access.
Application Details
For pursuing admission to this visual media course, candidates have no application form but two options, one is to make use of any old account credentials they have for FutureLearn or use their very personal Gmail or Facebook accounts to newly register themselves on FutureLearn. Even if they do not have such social accounts they are allowed to make this new account by filling in some details, for the registration process.
The Syllabus
- Introduction
- What is a picture book?
- Word and picture relationships
- Picturebooks and literacy
- Introduction
- Comics literacy
- Comics for children and ideology
- Comics culture and children today
- Defining ‘children’s film’
- Picturing youth with Studio Ghibli
- Analysing Ghibli’s pictures of youth
- Studio Ghibli in society and culture
- Television as sugar-coated education
- Reality television and schoolchildren
- Three examples of children's Shakespearean reality television
- Analysing children's Shakespearean reality television
Instructors
University of York, York Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
Employment services are unfortunately not offered by FutureLearn.
Without any digital upgrade, candidates receive a time of one month to get done with this visual culture programme.
The University of Reading is the university that has been associated with the certification training programme.
There are nearly 14,000+ people who have agreed to be students of this course’s curriculum.
Yes, one can try viewing some course preview content, and then if they feel satisfied, they can buy out the course for studying.