COMM 460 - Visual Communication and Rhetoric

Units: 3

Introduction to theories of visual communication, practices of seeing and looking, and approaches to critically analyzing objects of visual culture that come from art, popular culture, and mass media images. Explores how representations and the visual play important roles in constructing images of groups, communities, cultures, nations, and identities. Focuses on the power of the visual in public discourse and intercultural relations. (CCSC; MC)