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COM 75-474-01 | Spring 2024 |
Jan 16: Mapping the Course/Introductions
Jan 18: Introduction to Visual/Material Communication Studies
Read: Rose, Ch 1; MitchellJan 23: Intro to Critical Visual Methodologies
Read: Rose, Ch 2; Rose Ch 3Jan 25: What is "the Visual"?
Read: Shirato & WebbJan 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. 15Feb 13: Semiotics
Read: Rose, Ch. 9Feb 15: Social Semiotics
Read: Jewitt/Oyama; Kress/van LeeuwenFeb 20: Cinematic Semiotics: Screen/Discuss The Unusual Inventions of Henry Cavendish (2005)
Read: Rose, pages 125-143Feb 22: Discourse Analysis I: text/intertext/context
Read: Rose, Ch. 10February 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 & CollinsFeb 29: Discourse Analysis II: Institutional ways of seeing/displaying
Read: Rose, Ch. 11Mar 5: Discourse Analysis II: Making Things & People Visible
Read: Spalding; Bednar, "Being Here"Mar 7: Spatial Communication
Read: Aiello; Aiello & DickinsonMar 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. 12Mar 28: Studying Visual/Material Practices (cont)
Read: Janning et al.; Bennett & RogersApr 2: Studying Visual/Material/Spatial Practices (cont)
Read: Bednar, "Trauma Remains"Apr 4: Making Pictures
Read: Rose, Ch. 13Apr 9: Making Pictures (cont)
Read: Packard; WagnerApr 11: Doing Research Projects
Read: Rose, Ch. 5April 15: Special Monday Due Date
Due: EAP 4: Displaying/Using Visual Objects (electronic submission, by noon)
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; DrozdzewskiApr 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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Department of Communication Studies
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