COMMS 302

Visual Communication

Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for COMMS 302.

Description

This course provides students with tools for communicating with various kinds of visual images and objects including: brands, logos, graphic design, photographs, advertisements, idents, paintings and drawings, cartoons, maps, and architecture. The course shows how the visual is related to essential issues of communication, such as textuality, identity, ethnicity, nation, class, gender, and the inter-relationships between people in general.

By the end of this course students will have developed the ability to distinguish between visual communication across a range of media; an advanced understanding of media specifcity; an ability to apply conceptions of audiences and users taught at Stage II; an ability to articulate the importance of visual communication in everyday life; the ability to plan a project; knowledge of the role and function of a wide range of visual images and objects.

Find out more about undergraduate study in Communication.

Availability 2017

Not taught in 2017

Lecturer(s)

TBA

Points

COMMS 302: 15 points

Prerequisites

30 points at Stage II