Course Schedule
The following schedule offers a provisional plan for all work throughout the semester. We may revise it as needed. PDF readings are available for download at EMU Online (see Doc Sharing).
1.Week of Jan. 7-11
Mo.7 Frameworks and Schemas
Syllabus and schedule
Introductions
Rhetorical Terms
Portfolio contracts | Slidedeck with images
2.Week of Jan. 14-18
Mo.14 Visual Rhetoric is...
Buchanan, "Declaration by Design: Rhetoric, Argument, and Demonstration in Design Practice," pp. 4-22 (PDF)
Elkins, from The Object Stares Back, Introduction and Ch. 1, pp. 11-45 (PDF)
Helmers and Hill, "Introduction," pp. 1-23
(PDF)
Hill, "The Psychology of Rhetorical Images," pp. 25-40 (PDF)
Portfolio fovea #1: Vizrhet is...
DQ: Germaine, Tim, Melissa
3.Week of Jan. 21-25
Mo.21 MLK, Jr., Day - No Class
4.Week of Jan. 28-Feb. 1
Mo.28 Photography I
Barthes, CL, Part One, pp. 3-60
Barthes, "Rhetoric of the Image," pp. 152-163 (in Handa collection)
Ursus Wehrli TED Talk (Video)
Added: Photoshop Basix (in class)
Portfolio fovea #2: Annotated image in Google Docs Drawing
DQ:
Adam, Melissa, Beth, Lisa
5.Week of Feb. 4-8
Mo.4 Photography II: Studium and Punctum
Barthes, CL, Part Two, pp. 63-119
Turner, "Sandwich Negatives and Multiple Exposures," Online
Added: Photoshop Basix (in class)
Portfolio fovea #3: Image sandwich
DQ: Adam, Danielle, Autumn, Jana
6.Week of Feb. 11-15
Mo.11 Mapping
Wood, The Power of Maps, Introduction and Ch. 1, pp. 1-26 (PDF)
Monmonier, How to Lie with Maps, Ch. 1-3, pp. 1-42 (PDF)
This American Life, Mapping (audio)
Portfolio fovea #4 & 5: Mapping a field I & II
DQ: Dan L., Danielle, Melissa, Joe
7.Week of Feb. 18-22
Mo.18 Controversy Mapping
November, Camacho-Hubner, and Latour, "Entering a Risky Territory: Space in the Age of Digital Navigation," pp. 581-599 (PDF)
Venturini, "Building on Faults: How to Represent Controversies with Digital Methods," pp. 796-812 (PDF)
CMap Tools
Portfolio fovea #6: Controversy map
DQ: Danielle, Jana, Brian, Joe
8.Week of Feb. 25-Mar. 1
Mo.25 Document Design I
Schriver, "What is Document Design," pp. 1-11 (PDF)
Solomon, "The Power of Punctuation," pp. 282-289 (in Handa collection)
Bernhardt, "Seeing the Text," pp. 94-106 (in Handa collection)
Golombosky and Hagen, C. 7-8, pp. 69-110 (PDF)
Portfolio fovea #7: Typography carnival
DQ:
Dan L., Autumn, Dan R., Tim
9.Week of Mar. 4-9
No classes - Winter break
10.Week of Mar. 11-15
Mo.11 Document Design II
Tufte, "PowerPoint Does Rocket Science: Assessing the Quality and Credibility of Technical Reports"
Helvetica (Video)
Selection from Presentation Zen Design, C. 2-3 (PDF)
Golombosky and Hagen, C. 2-3, pp. 9-30 (PDF)
Portfolio fovea #8: Doc design analysis
DQ:
Dan R., Jennifer, Germaine, Tim
11.Week of Mar. 18-22
Mo.18 Graphesis
Drucker, "Graphesis," pp. 1-50, PDF
Cairo, "Introduction" and Part I, Foundations, pp. xiv-92
2012: The Year in Graphics, NYT
Portfolio fovea #9: Visual articulation
DQ:
Brian, Joe, Dan R., Jana
12.Week of Mar. 25-29
Mo.25 Affordances and Cognition
Cairo, Part II, Cognition, pp. 97-149
Gibson, "The Theory of Affordances," pp. 127-143 (PDF)
Portfolio fovea #10: Four icon challenge
DQ:
Autumn, Beth, Germaine
13.Week of Apr. 1-5
Mo.1 Practice
Four Icon Challenge
Cairo, Part III, Practice, pp. 153-209
14.Week of Apr. 8-12
Mo.8 Profiles
Cairo, Part IV, Profiles, Selections
Reynolds, Presentation Zen excerpt
DUE: Draft of Missing Chapter
DUE: Upload slidedeck no later than Sun., 4/14, 5 p.m.
15.Week of Apr. 15-19
Mo.15
Viz. Ignite Series
Course Evaluations
DUE: Fri., 4/19, Missing Chapter
16.Week of Apr. 22-26
Mo.22
DUE:
Portfolio
Contact Information
Derek N. Mueller, PhDProfessor
Department of English
Virginia Tech
Office: 315 Shanks Hall
Phone: +1-734-985-0485 (Google voice)
dmueller@vt.edu
http://derekmueller.net/rc/
