Visual

Communication

 

Reading is a negotiation between the numerous discourses of the reader and the discourses of the text.
John Fiske, Introduction to Communication Studies (1990)

 

Working Schedule, Spring, 2012

 

 

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

 

 


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