CAM 3085 Visual Culture
This course offers a multi-disciplinary approach that connects the ancient world with contemporary life. The ancient world was conveyed through shamans, storytellers, and cultural leaders primarily though visual arts such as sculpture and painting. With the development of the rhetorical arts in the classical world, the media changed and language was crafted through semiotic and symbolic meaning. The evolution of the printing press provided the ability to share the printed word and enhanced options for literacy. Typography expanded into new textural communication forms. We are now engaged in the digital and global world. At each level the visual messages have had the power to educate, inform, and persuade. This course offers an opportunity to learn about the stages of visual communication and to evaluate and discuss how visual communication has impacted the world. Course content will be derived from lectures, theory, visual analysis, research and presentations.