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Fall 2019 | WRIT 3671 Section 001: Visual Rhetoric and Document Design (17792)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Kenneth H Keller Hall 2-260
- Enrollment Status:
Closed (24 of 24 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Rhetorical principles applied to visual displays of information/data in print/online documents. Analyze/create examples of visual communication/design for selected documents combined with various writing strategies.
- Class Description:
- This class investigates current understandings of how visuals participate in and extend the rhetorical strategies long associated with speech and writing. Visual Rhetoric is an emerging discipline. with a developing canon of critical texts. In this class, we pair the study of visual rhetoric theories with the practical work of designing and executing documents common to professional and technical communication. Our readings will survey the work of rhetoricians, graphic designers, graphic novelists, commercial artists, fine artists, and technical communicators. I will endeavor to ensure that no one approach is presented as definitive. Rather, our goal should be to identify shared principles that seem constant or at least consistent whenever people pursue persuasion through visual information. In all these efforts, we will endeavor to move away from the subjective statements of preference that are the hallmark of art criticism, and toward grounded statements about how successfully visual rhetoricians are meeting the needs of their chosen audiences. This class will both depend upon and reward active class participation. We will be pursuing complex questions (often with similarly complex answers) and the success of the course may well hinge on our collective commitment to both the readings and our in-class discussions. Please arrive prepared to discuss our assigned reading, to be called upon, and to share your insights with your classmates.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17792/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 25 October 2013
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