HCRT-100: Critical Practice 1

This course will provide a basic visual vocabulary or rhetoric. The primary learning objective is to understand how images work--successfully or not--to convey the intended meaning of the artist/designer to a desired audience. Rather than ask what images mean, the emphasis is on how they work in a variety of contexts. In other words, students will learn the rhetoric of visual communication, with "rhetoric" understood here as a form of persuasion that produces an intellectual and physical transformation in the viewer.