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Month: january | february | march | april
| Week | Dates | Topic and Reading | Deadlines |
| Jan 14 | Intro to
Visual Rhetoric: Minard’s War, Wired’s Appropriation,
and Cruel Pies |
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2 |
Jan 21 | Designing
the Visual Landscape: Design-centered Aesthetics & Alternatives Read: Tufte, Passini, Ehn, Usability URLs Iconoclash: What is Iconoclash? & Why do images trigger so much furor? |
Found Image 1 |
3 |
Jan 28 | Theorizing the Image: Describing Interpretive Methods Read: Kress, Mitchell, or Barry Iconoclash: Why are images so ambiguous? |
Found Image 2 |
| Feb 4 | Triangulating The Gaze: Stating Your Perspective Share and read a new text: Kress, Mitchell, or Barry Iconoclash: Why do gods object to images? |
Found Image 3 | |
5 |
Feb 11 | Description and Critique: Articulation and Revealing Soja, Johnson-Eilola, Nardi & O’Day Iconoclash: The unbearable image, sound, movement & How can an image represent …? |
Theory Statement |
6 |
Feb 18 | From Observation to Action: Mapping Visual Rhetoric URLS titled: Maps, maps and more maps Iconoclash: Why is destruction necessary for construction? |
Mapping Fields 1 |
7 |
Feb 25 | Praxis: Mapping Your Specialty Selber & Johnson-Eiola, Wilson, Kaufer, Kostelnick Iconoclash: Can the gods cohabitate? & But there is no image anymore anyway! |
Mapping Fields 2 |
| Mar 3 | To Action,
to Action: Visual Articulation and Designing the World Read: Visual Rhetoric in Advertising Digital Folder of Essays Iconoclash: Finish |
Visual Articulation | |
9 |
Mar 10 | Reversion and Revision:
How far have we come? Read: Pattern Recognition |
Native Image |
10 |
Mar 17 | Spring Break: No Class | |
11 |
Mar 24 | CCCC: Virtual Asynchronous Class | |
12 |
Mar 31 | Art and Resistance:
Action in Still Images Read: Picasso’s War |
Interpret Guernica |
| Apr 7 | Articulation: Projecting
Possible Knowledge Read: Enculturation, Brooke, Pre/Text, Kairos |
Project Proposals | |
14 |
Apr 14 | Presenting Knowledge | Project Presentations |
15 |
Apr 21 | Teaching Visual Rhetoric:
Pedagogy, Technology, Literacy Read: Computers and Composition 18:1,2 |
Project Presentations |
16 |
Apr 28 | Re-presenting Knowledge | Revision Workshop, Final Project Due May 1 |