VISUAL RHETORIC   [Archived Catalog]
2020-2021 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog
   

COMMRC 2212 - VISUAL RHETORIC


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This seminar concentrates on scholarship concerning visual rhetoric and its various synonyms, primarily produced in the United States during the last few decades. Through classroom exercises, readings, and writings, graduate students will become familiar with various practices of message analysis and evaluation pertaining to pictorial persuasion. Seminar participants prepare and present original research concerning visual rhetoric, including the formulation of research questions, developing an appropriate literature review, and, ultimately, inventing sustained argumentation for a thesis concerning the rhetoric of pictorial works.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Grad LG/SNC Basis


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