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Visual Communication |
John Fiske, Introduction to Communication Studies (1990)
Jan 10: Mapping the Course/Introductions/Pictionary
Jan 12: "Reading" and "writing" the "visual"; Case Study: Pictionary (Rose, Preface and Ch 1; Shirato/Webb)
Jan 17: Intro to Critical Visual Methodologies; Case Study: Afghan Girl (Rose, Ch 2-3; Edwards)
Jan 19: Semiotics (Rose, Ch. 6; Jewitt/Oyama)
Jan 24: Semiotics (Rose, pp. 58-79; Kress/van Leeuwen)
Jan 26: Web Workshop: Crash Course in HTML
Jan 31: Web Workshop: Crash Course in HTML
Due: EAP 1
Feb 2: Critique Workshop
Feb 7: Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Film (Rose, Ch. 7; Lewis)
Due: Revised EAP 1
Feb 9: Screen Vertigo
Feb 14: Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Film (Rose, Ch. 7; Modleski; Blakesley; Singer; Vertigo)
Feb 16: Discourse Analysis I: text/intertext/context (Rose, Ch. 8)
Feb 21: Discourse Analysis I: text/intertext/context (Rose, Ch. 8; Lutz/Collins; Jenkins; Fitzpatrick)
Feb 23: Web Workshop: EAP 2
Feb 28: Web Workshop: EAP 2
Due: EAP 2
Mar 1: Critique Workshop
Mar 6: Discourse Analysis II: institutional ways of seeing/displaying (Rose, Ch. 9)
Due: Revised EAP 2
Mar 8: Discourse Analysis II: institutional ways of seeing/displaying (Rose, Ch. 9; Parks; Bednar; Millington)
Due: Informal Web Project Proposal
Mar 13-15: No Class--Spring Break
Mar 20: Audiencing (Rose, Ch. 10; Bednar)
Mar 22: Audiencing (Rose, Ch. 10; Anden-Papadopoulos; Livingstone; Murray)
Due: Formal Web Project Proposal
Mar 27: Making Pictures (Rose, Ch. 11; Packard)
Mar 29: Web Workshop: EAP 3
Due: EAP 3
Apr 3: Critique Workshop
Apr 5: Review (Rose, Ch. 12-13)
Due: Revised EAP 3
Apr 10: Exam
Apr 12: Research Day
Apr 17: Web Workshop
Due: Material Final Project
Apr 19: Web Workshop
Apr 24: Web Workshop
Apr 26: Web Workshop/Conclusions
May 4: Final Web Workshop, during Final Exam period 1:30-4:30 PM
Due: Final Project; Site Map; Presentation
Quick Links to VisComm Resources:
Archives of student work for: EAP 2 and EAP 3
Previous Students' Web Projects
Bob Bednar @ Southwestern University