COMN 458 - Visual Rhetoric

2022-2023 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 4
Lecture: 4
Non-Lecture: 0
As we become fully immersed in the so-called ‘visual age,’ we need to become critical consumers and producers of the media saturating our lives. This course engages the visual age while pushing back against the tendency to assume that “new” media cannot be studied through classic principles of style, composition, and design. This course introduces strategies for critiquing and producing visual media including juxtaposition, pose, figure, metaphor, composition, duration, rhythm, montage, and foregrounding. Students will write visual analysis and produce visual messaging. We approach visual culture as a site of convergence for power and privilege.

Prerequisite(s): COMN 100, and either COMN 230 or COMN 231
Offered: Every two years