English 419 and
519 meets Mondays 1:00 – 2:15 in Mitchell Hall 115;
Wednesdays 12:50
– 2:00 in Dane Smith Hall 144; and during other hours on the blog.
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[English professionals must reconsider] what skills, aptitudes, knowledges, [and] dispositions concerned with representation and communication [students] will need to be able to live productive, fulfilling lives – Gunther Kress |
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In.
. . an age of . . . all-invasive image-making, we still do not know exactly
what pictures are, what their relation to language is, how they operate on
observers and on the world, how their history is to be understood, and what
is to be done with or about them – W.J.T. Mitchell |
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Susan Romano
Office Hours
Tuesdays 1- 2 and Wednesdays 11-12 and by appointment
HUM 362 (I can
also be found in HUM 215 on Tuesday mornings and Wednesday afternoon)
blog: http://theanswergrape.com/asblog
Stephanie Holinka thegrape@unm.edu
Charles Kostelnick and David D. Roberts, Designing
Visual Language: Strategies for Professional Communicators
Scott McCloud, Understanding
Comics: The Invisible Art
Packet of
Readings to be printed out from http://ereserves.unm.edu
In Visual
Rhetoric we will investigate the relationship between the visual and the
verbal, an area of burgeoning interest in contemporary rhetorical
education. We will spend time learning to “see” better by collecting and talking
about representations that combine the visual and the verbal in different
configurations. We will learn a
vocabulary that nuances this “seeing” and thus enhances our ability to analyze
and critique these representations. Finally, we will produce our own
visual/verbal texts using both commonly available tools and more specialized
ones as needed. Graduate students will read advanced texts and develop verbal
and visual methods of teaching advanced concepts to the undergraduates.
Undergraduate Course
100 points possible
30 Lab Exercises
Visual and Verbal
25 Portfolio
featuring 3 upgraded and enhanced lab exercises and verbalizations
30 Individual
Projects
10 Portfolio of
Collected Visual/Verbal texts
5 Technical
Skills Advancement
Graduate Course
135 points possible
25 Lab Exercises
Visual and Verbal
25 Portfolio
featuring 2 upgraded and enhanced lab exercises and verbalizations
45 Individual Projects and theoretical
commentary from readings
10 Portfolio of
Collected Visual/Verbal texts
10 Technical
Skills Advancement
20 Teaching
Required. Points
deducted for more than 2 absences. At fourth absence, I’ll suggest that you
drop the course.