Readings are due on the date listed (e.g. read the Picturing Texts introduction prior to class on Jan 22)

Week 1
Jan 20 Introductions
WATCH: Scott McCloud, “The Visual Magic of Comics”

Jan 22
READ: Picturing Texts Introduction
TOOL: Basic Blogging, pbworks. Create LR pages for yourself in your LR folder, write one observation, take the quiz.

Week 2
Jan 27
READ: Ways of Seeing Ch1 (video)
TOOL: Creative Commons, Copyright, Fair Use

Jan 29
READ: Picturing Texts Ch 1
DUE: LR A1/A2
TOOL: Library Resources

Week 3
Feb 3
READ: Ways of Seeing Ch 5-7 (text)
DUE: Short Analysis 1
TOOL: Image Editing

Feb 4
READ: Picturing Texts Ch 6
TOOL: Blogging Redux

Week 4
Feb 10
READ:“The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (on pbworks)
TOOL: Basic HTML

Feb 12
READ: Warner, “Publics and Counterpublics” (on pbworks)
DUE: Short Analysis 2

Week 5
Feb 17
NO CLASS – POOR WEATHER DAY Come prepared to discuss Warner again on Thursday 02/19.

Feb 19
READ: READ: Warner, “Publics and Counterpublics” (on pbworks)

Week 6
Feb 24
“Multimodality In Motion”

Feb 26
DISCUSS: LR expectations
WORKSHOP: accessibility
TOOL: photo editing

Week 7
Mar 3
DUE: Visual argument 1.1
WORKSHOP: video production

Mar 5 – No Class, Poor weather day
DUE: LR Self Evaluation, midterm survey

Week 8
Mar 10

WORKSHOP: video and image production:popcorn maker, popcorn maker tutorial
DISCUSS: Annotated Bibliography

Mar 12
READ: “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”-on pbworks
READ: 30% feedback

Week 9
Mar 17
SPRING BREAK

Mar 19
SPRING BREAK

WEEK 10
Mar 24
DUE: Annotated Bibliography
WORKSHOP: 30% feedback/make a pitch.

Mar 26
READ: Remediation Ch1
DUE: Group decisions

WEEK 11
Mar 31
Guest Lecture – Audience Analysis

DUE: Visual Argument 1.2

April 2
READ: “Image Events Guerrilla Girl Style”

WEEK 12
April 7
READ: #Ferguson
Tool: graphing

April 09
READ: #Ferguson

WEEK 13
April 14
READ: Picturing Texts Ch 7

April 16
Workshop: Final Project Peer Review

WEEK 14
April 21
DUE: Final Project v1
Conferences

April 23
Conferences

WEEK 15
April 28
Presentations

May 5
Presentations

May 7
Presentations

Finals Week Final Project v2, LR final evaluation are due by midnight May 15.