TDS-316: TDS:Text,Image & Written Word

This course is for advanced students, 5th term or higher, and has as its ultimate objective the production of a viable chapbook / zine. During the course of the semester, students will not only need to design and produce a book, but work with an editor and an author, read deeply into the text to find meaningful ways (as opposed to solely decorative ways) to graphically represent the text, and study the historical and literary ground from which the text comes as one way of discovering its meaning. Course Objectives Emphasize the dynamic relationship between the meaning a text and its graphic representation. Explore the origins of a particular text as a method of learning how to begin to discover "meaning" in a literary work. Begin to make solid connections between the graphic and the literary arts. To embrace several departments [TDS], creating collaborative projects between writers and the practitioners of ACCD's various disciplines. To produce three chapbooks per year that would be suitable for sale to individual and institutional collections, and to distribute as gifts to major donors to the college and others