CDL COURSE ENTRY FORM


Author: Bernice Kennedy/SUNY
Last modified by: Laura Wait/SUNY
Composed: 05/11/2004 04:05 PM
Curriculum Committee Approval Date:
Modified: 03/14/2014
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Course Number: (prefix) ART (number) 224424 ESC 2.0 Course number:

Name: Visual Literacy: Advanced
Datatel Title: (30char) Visual Literacy: Advanced

Area Coordinator: Cindy Conaway Department Code: 10MC Team: Humanities

Liberal Study? YES Level: UPPER Credits: 4 Prerequisite? YES
General Education Course? YES GenEd Approval Term/Year:

GenEd Area 1: 8. The ArtsFully or Partially: f
GenEd Area 2: Fully or Partially:



Pre-registration Information?
Course will be offered (for online course descriptions, proposed offerings for by term views and web views)
Spring 1		Course will be offered (for final term listings, online registration, online bookordering, web views)
Spring 1
First Term Offered: (Required Format: YearTerm - i.e., 2005SP)
Last Term Offered in Print Version:
Title Changes:
AC Changes: Last term being offered was Jan 2014. Only lower version being offered now per Cindy Conaway.
BK Number:

Description: This course is designed to engage the student in the creative process and foster understanding of the media arts. Topics of study include visual expression and communication in photography, film, television, animation, typography and graphic design. Through theory, method and application, students will develop an understanding of the visual arts aspect of mass communications and the creative processes inherent in them. Students will analyze, interpret and understand the role the media arts play in their lives and in society. The course is organized around readings, discussion, critique, written assignments and projects designed to promote visual literacy and understanding in the media arts. Student projects and written accounts will require that the student engage in abstract and critical analysis of the course concepts and then apply them to specific tasks. The students will be required to refer in detail to the literature in the field and articulate the process and product specific to visual communication. The course includes supplementary readings that address current developments in semiotics and visual culture.

Students need access to the Internet, a film or digital camera, a scanner and the digital capacity to submit print material online as low-resolution JPEG images.

Note: students should not include both Visual Literacy: Introductory and Visual Literacy: Advanced in their degree program. This course can only be taken once, either at the lower-level or at the upper-level.

Prerequisite: upper-level standing with advanced critical thinking and writing skills.

Recommended: A World of Art, Introduction to Studio Art, The Photographic Vision or relevant experience in the visual arts.

This course fully meets the General Education requirement in The Arts.

Generic:



Major Course Area
The Arts		Minor Course Area
Arts: Visual and Performing, Communications and Media		SLN Disciplines
Art
Additional Course Requirements
WWW Computer Conference		 Undergrad Certificate Association:


0


Meets General Education Requirement

Required Booknote:

Optional Booknote:


Archive Course: Yes
Archived for Development:

genedcode for dpplanner: 8^f~8

genedfull area for dpplanner: The Arts