Visual/Material Communication

COM 75-474-01 | Spring 2024

 

Jan 16: Mapping the Course/Introductions

Jan 18: Introduction to Visual/Material Communication Studies

Read: Rose, Ch 1; Mitchell

Jan 23: Intro to Critical Visual Methodologies

Read: Rose, Ch 2; Rose Ch 3

Jan 25: What is "the Visual"?

Read: Shirato & Webb

Jan 30: What is "the Material"?

Read: Breen, Scott, & McLean

Feb 1: Biographies of Objects/Images Case Study: Afghan Girl

Read: Edwards

Feb 6: "My Stuff" Presentations (In-Class Presentation and Submission of Outline)

Due: EAP 1: "My Stuff" Presentation (plus 1-page outline submitted electronically by noon)

Feb 8: Producing Photo-Essays

Read: Rose, Ch. 15

Feb 13: Semiotics

Read: Rose, Ch. 9

Feb 15: Social Semiotics

Read: Jewitt/Oyama; Kress/van Leeuwen

Feb 20: Cinematic Semiotics: Screen/Discuss The Unusual Inventions of Henry Cavendish (2005)

Read: Rose, pages 125-143

Feb 22: Discourse Analysis I: text/intertext/context

Read: Rose, Ch. 10

February 23: Special Friday Due Date

Due: EAP 2: Social Semiotic Analysis: Single Visual Text (electronic submission, by noon)

Feb 27: Discourse Analysis I: text/intertext/context (cont)

Read: Jenkins; Lutz & Collins

Feb 29: Discourse Analysis II: Institutional ways of seeing/displaying

Read: Rose, Ch. 11

Mar 5: Discourse Analysis II: Making Things & People Visible

Read: Spalding; Bednar, "Being Here"

Mar 7: Spatial Communication

Read: Aiello; Aiello & Dickinson

Mar 12-14: No Class--Spring Break

Mar 19: {Research Consultations}

Mar 21: {Research Consultations}

Due: EAP 3: Curated Visual Discourse Analysis (electronic submission, by noon)

Mar 26: Studying Visual/Material Practices

Read: Rose, Ch. 12

Mar 28: Studying Visual/Material Practices (cont)

Read: Janning et al.; Bennett & Rogers

Apr 2: Studying Visual/Material/Spatial Practices (cont)

Read: Bednar, "Trauma Remains"

Apr 4: Making Pictures

Read: Rose, Ch. 13

Apr 9: Making Pictures (cont)

Read: Packard; Wagner

Apr 11: Doing Research Projects

Read: Rose, Ch. 5
Due: EAP 4: Displaying/Using Visual Objects (electronic submission, by noon)

April 15: Special Monday Due Date

Due: Research Project Project Proposal (electronic submission, by 5pm)

Apr 16: {No Class--Research/Creative Works Symposium}

Apr 18: Theoretical Extensions: Visuality/Materiality and Mobility

Read: Karlander; Drozdzewski

Apr 23: Theoretical Extensions: Presence and Absence

Read: Gibson; Heessels et al.

Apr 25: {Research Consultations}

Apr 30: Conclusions/Course Evaluations, Informal Research Project Presentations

May 7 (Tuesday): Final Research Projects Due

Due: Final Research Project (electronic submission, by 9pm)

 

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