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The class introduces students to theories and practices of visual communication in the United States. We examine theoretical approaches to understanding visual communication - semiotics, psychoanalysis, political economy, Marxism - that would enable us to analyze an image internally, as well as to place it in its historical, economic, political, and cultural context. We get to know historical moments of U.S. visual culture, such as Act Up! posters, street murals from around the Twin Cities, labor comic books from the Second World War, and the graffiti scene in New York.

The class works closely with the University of Minnesota Libraries Gorman Rare Art Book Collection which holds thousands of zines (http://gormanartspeccoll.tumblr.com/). Zines are usually, but not always, black and white publications that are cheaply made using a photocopier. Throughout the semester, the class works with Collection to create metadata (thorough description) of zines. This is great experience to include on your resumes!

The class introduces students to theories and practices of visual communication in the United States. We examine theoretical approaches to understanding visual communication - semiotics, psychoanalysis, political economy, Marxism - that would enable us to analyze an image internally, as well as to place it in its historical, economic, political, and cultural context. We get to know historical moments of U.S. visual culture, such as Act Up! posters, street murals from around the Twin Cities, labor comic books from the Second World War, and the graffiti scene in New York.

The class works closely with the University of Minnesota Libraries Gorman Rare Art Book Collection which holds thousands of zines (http://gormanartspeccoll.tumblr.com/). Zines are usually, but not always, black and white publications that are cheaply made using a photocopier. Throughout the semester, the class works with Collection to create metadata (thorough description) of zines. This is great experience to include on your resumes!

The class introduces students to theories and practices of visual communication in the United States. We examine theoretical approaches to understanding visual communication - semiotics, psychoanalysis, political economy, Marxism - that would enable us to analyze an image internally, as well as to place it in its historical, economic, political, and cultural context. We get to know historical moments of U.S. visual culture, such as Act Up! posters, street murals from around the Twin Cities, labor comic books from the Second World War, and the graffiti scene in New York.

The class works closely with the University of Minnesota Libraries Gorman Rare Art Book Collection which holds thousands of zines (http://gormanartspeccoll.tumblr.com/). Zines are usually, but not always, black and white publications that are cheaply made using a photocopier. Throughout the semester, the class works with Collection to create metadata (thorough description) of zines. This is great experience to include on your resumes!

The class introduces students to theories and practices of visual communication in the United States. We examine theoretical approaches to understanding visual communication - semiotics, psychoanalysis, political economy, Marxism - that would enable us to analyze an image internally, as well as to place it in its historical, economic, political, and cultural context. We get to know historical moments of U.S. visual culture, such as Act Up! posters, street murals from around the Twin Cities, labor comic books from the Second World War, and the graffiti scene in New York.

The class works closely with the University of Minnesota Libraries Gorman Rare Art Book Collection which holds thousands of zines (http://gormanartspeccoll.tumblr.com/). Zines are usually, but not always, black and white publications that are cheaply made using a photocopier. Throughout the semester, the class works with Collection to create metadata (thorough description) of zines. This is great experience to include on your resumes!

The class introduces students to theories and practices of visual communication in the United States. We examine theoretical approaches to understanding visual communication - semiotics, psychoanalysis, political economy, Marxism - that would enable us to analyze an image internally, as well as to place it in its historical, economic, political, and cultural context. We get to know historical moments of U.S. visual culture, such as Act Up! posters, street murals from around the Twin Cities, labor comic books from the Second World War, and the graffiti scene in New York.

The class works closely with the University of Minnesota Libraries Gorman Rare Art Book Collection which holds thousands of zines (http://gormanartspeccoll.tumblr.com/). Zines are usually, but not always, black and white publications that are cheaply made using a photocopier. Throughout the semester, the class works with Collection to create metadata (thorough description) of zines. This is great experience to include on your resumes!

The class introduces students to theories and practices of visual communication in the United States. We examine theoretical approaches to understanding visual communication - semiotics, psychoanalysis, political economy, Marxism - that would enable us to analyze an image internally, as well as to place it in its historical, economic, political, and cultural context. We get to know historical moments of U.S. visual culture, such as Act Up! posters, street murals from around the Twin Cities, labor comic books from the Second World War, and the graffiti scene in New York.

The class works closely with the University of Minnesota Libraries Gorman Rare Art Book Collection which holds thousands of zines (http://gormanartspeccoll.tumblr.com/). Zines are usually, but not always, black and white publications that are cheaply made using a photocopier. Throughout the semester, the class works with Collection to create metadata (thorough description) of zines. This is great experience to include on your resumes!

The class introduces students to theories and practices of visual communication in the United States. We examine theoretical approaches to understanding visual communication - semiotics, psychoanalysis, political economy, Marxism - that would enable us to analyze an image internally, as well as to place it in its historical, economic, political, and cultural context. We get to know historical moments of U.S. visual culture, such as Act Up! posters, street murals from around the Twin Cities, labor comic books from the Second World War, and the graffiti scene in New York.

The class works closely with the University of Minnesota Libraries Gorman Rare Art Book Collection which holds thousands of zines (http://gormanartspeccoll.tumblr.com/). Zines are usually, but not always, black and white publications that are cheaply made using a photocopier. Throughout the semester, the class works with Collection to create metadata (thorough description) of zines. This is great experience to include on your resumes!

The class introduces students to theories and practices of visual communication in the United States. We examine theoretical approaches to understanding visual communication - semiotics, psychoanalysis, political economy, Marxism - that would enable us to analyze an image internally, as well as to place it in its historical, economic, political, and cultural context. We get to know historical moments of U.S. visual culture, such as Act Up! posters, street murals from around the Twin Cities, labor comic books from the Second World War, and the graffiti scene in New York.

The class works closely with the University of Minnesota Libraries Gorman Rare Art Book Collection which holds thousands of zines (http://gormanartspeccoll.tumblr.com/). Zines are usually, but not always, black and white publications that are cheaply made using a photocopier. Throughout the semester, the class works with Collection to create metadata (thorough description) of zines. This is great experience to include on your resumes!

We are surrounded by images. We pass billboards, flip through images in magazines and newspapers, share memes, "like" photos on social media, and hang artwork on our walls. Maybe we create our own images, whether its drawing, digital design, or taking selfies. Our culture is very much a visual one.

Although images are ubiquitous and "everyday" they are also powerful. In this class we explore how pictures persuade. I use "persuade" here in a broad sense. We will begin the semester learning rhetorical approaches to how images aid in persuasion and more specifically in argumentation. However, this class is more broadly concerned with how pictures are meaningful - that is, how they construct meaning about our world and about ourselves. How do images represent people, groups, and issues? How do they reflect and reinforce power? What "truths" do they construct? How do they produce "ways of seeing" the world or ourselves? Throughout the course of the semester you will familiarize yourself with various communication theories and use them to analyze images.

We are surrounded by images. We pass billboards, flip through images in magazines and newspapers, share memes, "like" photos on social media, and hang artwork on our walls. Maybe we create our own images, whether its drawing, digital design, or taking selfies. Our culture is very much a visual one.

Although images are ubiquitous and "everyday" they are also powerful. In this class we explore how pictures persuade. I use "persuade" here in a broad sense. We will begin the semester learning rhetorical approaches to how images aid in persuasion and more specifically in argumentation. However, this class is more broadly concerned with how pictures are meaningful - that is, how they construct meaning about our world and about ourselves. How do images represent people, groups, and issues? How do they reflect and reinforce power? What "truths" do they construct? How do they produce "ways of seeing" the world or ourselves? Throughout the course of the semester you will familiarize yourself with various communication theories and use them to analyze images.

We are surrounded by images. We pass billboards, flip through images in magazines and newspapers, share memes, "like" photos on social media, and hang artwork on our walls. Maybe we create our own images, whether its drawing, digital design, or taking selfies. Our culture is very much a visual one.

Although images are ubiquitous and "everyday" they are also powerful. In this class we explore how pictures persuade. I use "persuade" here in a broad sense. We will begin the semester learning rhetorical approaches to how images aid in persuasion and more specifically in argumentation. However, this class is more broadly concerned with how pictures are meaningful - that is, how they construct meaning about our world and about ourselves. How do images represent people, groups, and issues? How do they reflect and reinforce power? What "truths" do they construct? How do they produce "ways of seeing" the world or ourselves? Throughout the course of the semester you will familiarize yourself with various communication theories and use them to analyze images.

The class introduces students to theories and practices of visual communication in the United States. We examine theoretical approaches to understanding visual communication - semiotics, psychoanalysis, political economy, Marxism - that would enable us to analyze an image internally, as well as to place it in its historical, economic, political, and cultural context. We get to know historical moments of U.S. visual culture, such as Act Up! posters, street murals from around the Twin Cities, labor comic books from the Second World War, and the graffiti scene in New York.

The class works closely with the University of Minnesota Libraries Gorman Rare Art Book Collection which holds thousands of zines (http://gormanartspeccoll.tumblr.com/). Zines are usually, but not always, black and white publications that are cheaply made using a photocopier. Throughout the semester, the class works with Collection to create metadata (thorough description) of zines. This is great experience to include on your resumes!

The class introduces students to theories and practices of visual communication in the United States. We examine theoretical approaches to understanding visual communication - semiotics, psychoanalysis, political economy, Marxism - that would enable us to analyze an image internally, as well as to place it in its historical, economic, political, and cultural context. We get to know historical moments of U.S. visual culture, such as Act Up! posters, street murals from around the Twin Cities, labor comic books from the Second World War, and the graffiti scene in New York.

The class works closely with the University of Minnesota Libraries Gorman Rare Art Book Collection which holds thousands of zines (http://gormanartspeccoll.tumblr.com/). Zines are usually, but not always, black and white publications that are cheaply made using a photocopier. Throughout the semester, the class works with Collection to create metadata (thorough description) of zines. This is great experience to include on your resumes!

The class introduces students to theories and practices of visual communication in the United States. We examine theoretical approaches to understanding visual communication - semiotics, psychoanalysis, political economy, Marxism - that would enable us to analyze an image internally, as well as to place it in its historical, economic, political, and cultural context. We get to know historical moments of U.S. visual culture, such as Act Up! posters, street murals from around the Twin Cities, labor comic books from the Second World War, and the graffiti scene in New York.

The class works closely with the University of Minnesota Libraries Gorman Rare Art Book Collection which holds thousands of zines (http://gormanartspeccoll.tumblr.com/). Zines are usually, but not always, black and white publications that are cheaply made using a photocopier. Throughout the semester, the class works with Collection to create metadata (thorough description) of zines. This is great experience to include on your resumes!