COMMS 302

Visual Communication


Please note: this is archived course information from 2019 for COMMS 302.

Description

Provides students the tools for communicating with various kinds of visual images and objects. These may include brands, logos, graphics, photographs, advertisements, promos, paintings, cartoons, maps, architecture and architectural diagrams.

Students will interrogate their culturally specific visual competencies and refine their skills in visual literacy while addressing issues of textuality, identity, ethnicity, nation, class, gender and communicative interrelationships more generally.

Assessment

To be confirmed

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Availability 2019

Semester 2

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Professor Laurence Simmons

Points

COMMS 302: 15 points

Prerequisites

ARTHIST 115 or ARTHIST 115G and 30 points in BA courses, or 15 points from COMMS 200-206 and 15 points in BA courses