WRCM 209 - Visual Communication

FC ARHU WINT

4 credits
Analyzes the ways that visual materials impact our daily lives using readings, examples, and discussion. Whether or not we recognize it, visual material impacts our daily lives, whether we are actively consuming it, or it passively participating in visual culture. As consumers of these images, and especially as communication scholars, we need to think critically about these visual materials and how they shape our perceptions of ourselves and the world around us. This class focuses on several methods for critically researching visuals and applies these methods to examine and discuss several kinds of visuals including photography, film/television, advertising, arts, and urban spaces. It is designed to improve students’ critical understanding of the visual, and its various forms of communication and includes some hands-on image production.

This course is appropriate for new students.