Undergraduate Seminar (398-0-77)

Topic

Visual Rhetoric

Instructors

Walter Brady Creel

Meeting Info

Northwestern Qatar Room 2-255: Mon, Wed 4:00PM - 5:15PM (AST)

Overview of class

Students learn methods for critical analysis of advertising, art, branding, memorials, photographs, political cartoons and other visual media as artifacts of persuasion and civic discourse. Students apply theories of rhetorical criticism, rhetorical history and public memory to regional and global case studies they leverage to create of visual media intended to persuade or inform.

Registration Requirements

Prerequisites: None

Open to sophomores and above, MIT majors only

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: Registration is reserved for COMM Majors who are Sophomores and above.