VART 238 - Visual Literacy

3 Credit Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Laboratory Hours

Designed for the non-major, this course introduces students to the contemporary challenges of reading, comprehending, and creating visual communication in an expanded sense. Students are introduced to a common language for describing visual communication and then apply rules to create and analyze a wide variety of content. Best practices for a varietyof applications including quantitative graphical forms, photography, advertising, and motion graphics are applied in lab using Power Point, Excel, Photoshop, and Illustrator.