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Overview
Hello and welcome to English 419,
Visual Rhetoric. Until recently, visual thinking and graphic design have
played but a small role in the sorts of writing usually associated with
English studies. Now, however, the predominance of the World Wide Web
as a reading and writing medium, along with the availability of computer
graphics software, assures that the artful incorporation of pictures,
photographs, icons, symbols, lines, and geometric shapes into traditional
documents is an important part of a writer's rhetorical repertoire. Visual
Rhetoric prepares you to conceptualize and implement documents whose meaning
is enriched by design. When you successfully complete this course, you
will have acquired the necessary vocabulary to discuss design issues with
a range of writing professionals; you will have advanced your technical
expertise in design; you will have challenged conventional wisdom about
design; and you will have proposed and implemented a design project of
your choice. We especially hope that the course prepares you continue
developing design proficiency long after the semester is over.
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Attendance
You may miss three classes for whatever
reason you find appropriate, including illness, car trouble, and family
emergency. Please notify me beforehand or immediately after each absence
(email is best). If you miss more than three class periods, your ability
to keep up with coursework will be in jeopardy, and I'll encourage you to
drop the course. If you choose to stay your grade will be reduced, regardless
of the reasons you may have for not attending class.
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Grades
Class
assignments, class exercises, lab exercises, quizzes, notebook: 35 percent
Midterm exam, final exam, technical midterm exam: 25 percent
Course Project: 30 percent
Attendance and participation: 10 percent
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