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VISUAL LITERACY: INTRODUCTORY (ART-222424)

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Course Description:


This course is designed to engage the student in the creative process and foster understanding of the media arts. Topics of study include visual expression and communication in photography, film, television, animation, typography and graphic design. Through theory, method and applications, students will develop an understanding of the visual arts aspect of mass communications and the creative processes inherent in them. Students will analyze, interpret and understand the role the media arts play in their lives and in society. The course is organized around readings, discussion, critique, written assignments and projects designed to promote visual literacy and understanding in the media arts. Students need access to the Internet, a film or digital camera, a scanner and the digital capacity to submit print material online as low-resolution JPEG images.

This course fully meets the General Education requirement in The Arts.
This online course is offered through the Center for Distance Learning. You can take this as an individual course or as part of an online degree program, with term starts in March, May, September, November and January. View current term offerings and all online courses. Click here to register for online courses.

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Liberal Study
Lower Level
Credits: 4
Meets General Education Requirement In: The Arts-Full
Term(s) Offered (Subject to Change) : Jan. May. Sep.

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