Description
GS7013
Visual Rhetorics:
This course is aimed at teaching students the ways and means of argumentation using visual and cultural techniques and strategies. Beginning with an overview of classical rhetoric ? Plato, Aristotle and the Sophist logos, students will be introduced to the ways in which visual media communicate and express through arrangement, emphasis, clarity, conciseness, tone and ethos. Students will examine and analyze the visual rhetorics of charts, paintings, sculpture, diagrams, films, ads and web pages. Students will particularly study the relationship of techniques as strategies for visual rhetoric, from perspectival drawing to advanced computer software. The intent of this class is to expose students to the larger cultural history of visual media prior to the more applied sequence of Visual Studies classes.