VIS761 Letters and Image

[2–2, 3 cr.]

This is an advanced course that focuses on the history, form, and use of word and image in visual narratives. Through a variety of projects, students explore relationships between ideas, language, form, and communication. This courses addresses possibilities in hand lettering and typography within visual narration. The students will amplify, through letters the stories they aim to tell visually. Students will be encouraged to develop new uses and functions for word and image based storytelling that go beyond current models of publishing.

Learning Outcomes:

• Recognize the history, form, and use of word and image in visual narratives
• Analyze relationships between ideas, language, form, and communication
• Use letters as a key component in visual storytelling
• Develop new uses and functions for word and image based storytelling