We’ll divide the
semester’s reading roughly into seven parts, as follows:
Week 1 8-25
& 8-27 Introduction to
Looking and Seeing
Reading: McCloud,
chapter 2
Designing:
Personal and Professional Locations: Verbal &Visual. Technical. Artist,
Designer, Editor, & Team Member. Analyst & Producer.Blogging and Macs.
Week 2 9-3 The Uses of Convention and Rule
Reading:
Kostelnick and Roberts, chapter 1 ; Sturken and Cartwright, (ereserves)
Begin Collection
of Images and Commentary
Designing: Lab
Exercise 1
Graduate Students
Only: Skim Sturken and Cartwright, read Hall (a start), (ereserves).
Week 3 9-8 & 9-10 Catching Up because of Labor Day
Reading: Myers,
“Words and Pictures” (ereserves)
Talking: The Readings; Your Collections
Week 4 9-15 & 9-17 Audiencing
Reading : Tyler;
Horton; Kostelnick and Roberts, chapter 2
Designing: Lab Exercise 2
Week 5 9-22
& 9-24 More Audiencing
Reading: Slatin
(ereserves); Kostelnick and Roberts, chapters
4 & 5
Designing: Lab
Exercise 2 continued
Week 6 9-29 & 10-1 Science and Economy
Reading: Tufte,
TBA (ereserves); Kress, excerpts (ereserves).
Designing: Verbal
to Visual Conversion: Lab Exercise 3
Week 7 10-6
& 10-8 Catching Up
Week 8 10-13-
& 10-15 Narrative
Reading: McCloud
Graduate Students
Only: In addition, W.J.T. Mitchell “The
Photographic Essay” (ereserves)
Week 9 10-20
& 10-22 Narrative
Reading: McCloud
Designing: Comic
Strip, Exercise 4
Draft Proposals
Week 10 10-27
& 10-29 Web
Reading: Carliner
(ereserves); Baehr and Johnson (ereserves)
Designing: TBA
Exercise 5 and 6
Graduate Students
Only: In addition, Rose (ereserves)
Draft Proposals
Week 11 11-3 &
11-5 Web
Reading:
Kostelnick and Roberts, chapter 10
Designing: Web site analysis
Week 12 11-10
& 11-12 Pictures and
Photography
Reading:
Photography reading chosen by graduate students; Kostelnick and Roberts,
chapter 8
Designing: TBA by graduate students
Week 13 11-17
& 11-19 Catching Up
Proposals Due
Graduate Students
Only: In addition, Margolin, “Wicked
Problems” (ereserves)
Week 14 11-24 & 11-26 Aesthetics
Graduate Students
Teach
Project Work
Graduate Students
Teach
Project Work
Reviews
Graduate Students
Teach
Project Work
Portfolio of Enhanced Exercises, Images Collection, and Large Assignment due