Visual Culture and Design

COURSE: IDS 216W, VISUAL CULTURE

SEMESTER: FALL 2018

INSTRUCTOR: AUBREY GRAHAM

ASSIGNMENT IN BRIEF

To experiment, design, and test their grasp of visual culture, students carried out their own visual production and analysis. They conducted visual experiments throughout the semester and then incorporated these visuals into their final project to present a specific argument.

SPACES/TECHNOLOGIES USED

LEARNING OUTCOMES

  • Think critically about photography, film, art, theater, memes, material objects, as well as collective cultural practices and the built environment
  • Improve the ability to think as analytically about images as one does about text by focusing on how visual media is created, circulated, and consumed.
  • Addressing theory, method, and concrete examples, course texts and media are intended to open avenues for students to analyze visuals in relation to the social politics (e.g. knowledge, power, ideology, and expectation) they both express and shape.
  • Personally experiment with analysis and creation.
 

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