Visual Rhetoric (ENGL 392B)

This course introduces students to the interaction of texts and images in such professional writing fields as advertising, book illustration, technical documentation, journalism, and public relations. Issues may include visual and textual literacy, the semiotics and rhetoric of design, and the ideological basis of social communication. In this particular section of the course, emphasis will be placed on historical and material analyses of visuals, as well as the production of visual images when considering academic texts.