Visual Communication - ARTS2094
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School: School of the Arts and Media
Course Outline: School of the Arts and Media
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: 30 units of credit at Level 1
Equivalent: MDIA2004
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
Available for General Education: Yes (more info)
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Description
Subject Area: Media, Culture and Technology
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, especially their visual components. We will consider a range of images and texts across a variety of media platforms, from newspapers, advertisements, magazines, to web sites, and cultural objects. We will develop a ‘grammar’ for analyzing these texts and the role they play in making meaning, in professional, public and personal contexts.