Honors: Visual Rhetoric

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Overview

Subject area

COM

Catalog Number

3170H

Course Title

Honors: Visual Rhetoric

Description

This course explores the ways that images function as persuasive communication. Students will learn tools for analyzing historical and contemporary visual forms such as photographs, advertisements, memes, and graphics. We will study how visual images perform rhetorical actions such as informing, deliberating, governing, authorizing, contesting, commodifying, consuming, and others.

Typically Offered

Fall, Spring, Summer

Academic Career

Undergraduate

Liberal Arts

Yes

Credits

Minimum Units

3

Maximum Units

3

Academic Progress Units

3

Repeat For Credit

No

Components

Name

Lecture

Hours

3

Requisites

025770

Course Schedule