Courses

This course exposes students to immersive and in-depth visual storytelling, including photography and video techniques. Students create long-form, documentary-style visual content in the field and in a studio and will learn emerging techniques in visual storytelling.

This course investigates image-based modes of rhetorical communication, including theories of visual rhetoric and the analysis of the issues and implications of images.

Visual sociology examines and produces visual perspectives on social life. It allows one to apply the sociological imagination in telling a visual story about social phenomena. Visual sociology utilizes all sorts of visual material in its analysis and methodologies. Hands-on use of smart phones and digital cameras will be utilized for applied class projects.

This course is an introduction to basic elements of video journalistic storytelling for today's converged newsrooms. Students gather information using journalism practices, such as in-person interviews, and learn to use video newsgathering technologies to produce stories for online and other digital platforms.

Introduction to language and techniques of writing for visual media, television and online alike. Students will also develop skills in using audio and video tools to capture and edit data and to tell clear, accurate, and powerful visual stories. The course can be used as an elective for the journalism minor.

Theory and practice of visual communication methodologies and processes used in interactive media, game design and development, or animation; visual storytelling.

Theory and practice of visual communication employing digital and conventional media; development of artistic concepts, proposal development and related implementation techniques; introduction to digital painting, 3D modeling, animatics and post production.

Theory and practice in the art and science of the visual image; scientific and mathematical principles as process; information theory and sensorial design; interactivity and user integration; integration of real and virtual environments including lighting design and material definition.

Theory and practice in the development of the digital image; non-traditional modeling methods; camera control and animation techniques; special effects; creative lighting methods; non-photorealistic rendering; integration of traditional and digital media in the creation of visual works.

This course examines fatand water-soluble vitamins and minerals in metabolic pathways of the body based on function or biochemical and physiological activity. The course will cover dietary sources, absorption, storage, metabolism, biochemistry, deficiency and toxicity of individual nutrients in the context of the DRIs. Some emphasis will be given to alterations of micronutrient metabolism in disease, and selected lifecycle conditions.