Course Title:
Visual Communication Culture
Course Description:
Examines theories of visuality and visual culture focusing on the analysis of images as texts. Explores some of the following issues to help students more fully understand images and the visual as a contested arena in which cultural meanings are constituted: the nature of representation, the construction of meaning, and the management of perception in and through image making; the organization of visual languages by institutions of meaning; the role of the viewer in the construction of image meanings and the rearticulation of these meanings into everyday lived culture.
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Prerequisite Remarks:
Admission to the graduate program or permission of instructor.
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Repeatable:
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