Courses

Students examine and create visual messages in a variety of contexts. Emphasis is on understanding the power of images in the sharing of messages.

Critical analysis of visual communication including photographs, advertising, memorials, tattoos, comics, public protest.

This course studies the principles, theories, and language of visual communication, emphasizing the evaluation and use of images in mass media. It is designed to help you integrate words and pictures in mass communication and to gain a greater appreciation of our visual world.

This course examines the principles, theories, and language of visual communication, emphasizing the evaluation and use of images in digital mass media. Students will learn about media influences on their perceptions of reality and their behavior, the elements of visual literacy, and multicultural and global perspectives in visual media.

Introduction to and practice of tools, methods, techniques available for graphic communication; graphic communication and the design process; observation and other forms of free-hand drawing and drawing systems that develop representational and descriptive capabilities.

Education This course allows the student to apply knowledge and skills in a real-world workplace. Evaluation is based upon a well-developed portfolio, job-site visits by the instructor, the employer's evaluation of the student, and a the development and assessment by the student of a learning contract.

Emphasis on the procedural and mathematical principles underlying computer programming for visual display and interaction; basics of digital image processing, parametric and implicit shape description, and applied linear algebra; includes an introduction to scripting in a 3D gaming package.

This course is an introduction to programming using the visual paradigm, aimed notions of problem solving through programming are introduced, following an

Provides an introduction to the critical understanding of visual images and their uses in a variety of rhetorical actions that humans perform in persuasion, informing, governing, remembering and authorizing public life and culture. PW: Digital Literacy Pract

Instruction in visual design for product and software-based experiences. Students will learn about visual design in UX, universal design principles, typography, and best practices in screen design for enterprise software, web apps, and native apps.