COMM 23700 - Visual Rhetoric

Course Credit: 1
Visual Rhetoric This course analyzes the production, composition, circulation, and reception of visual texts such as photographs, posters, portraits, sculptures, maps, and memes. It focuses on training students to analyze how images construct visual arguments and perform rhetorical actions such as resisting, commodifying, authorizing, and memorializing. Through regular reading response papers, a visual museum project, a video panel discussion, and two examinations, students will learn to critique the visual arguments constructed by an image and formulate cogent written and oral arguments about the role of visual texts in public life. The course also fulfills in part the College’s writing requirement for graduation. [AH, W]