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Visual Communication - MDIA2004
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of English, Media and Performing Arts
 
 
Course Outline: School of English, Media and Performing Arts Courses
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: Enrolment in Program 3428, 3429, 3433 or 4781, 30 units of credit at Level 1 plus one of MDIA1001, MDIA1002, ARTS1060, and one of ARTS1090, ARTS1091
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Visual communication in contemporary media typically combines a range of resources - written, visual, aural, spatial. We develop a set of techniques and frameworks to analyse these complex texts, and to explore how they create meanings. We will consider a range of texts, from newspapers, advertisements, magazines, to web sites, and three-dimensional spaces such as shops, museums and galleries. We will consider the 'grammar' of these texts, how the different modalities interact, and the role these texts play, especially in professional contexts.

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