Culture is what mediates between individuals and their society.
This mediation takes traditional forms of books, paintings, buildings, films, social institutions, mass media and other cultural products. Course Description From the mass media to computer technologies, we are increasingly inundated with visual images. Although we are traditionally educated to become literate with text, most of us rarely are educated to become literate of the language of visual images and how they impact our culture, shape our beliefs and attitudes, and influence our experience and our ability to communicate with others. This course is a overview of how we come to apprehend, interpret, and understand visuals, focusing in particular on issues of visual culture as they relate to new technologies. This will include an examination of changing theories of representation and visuality, particularly with regard to how communication technologies serve to blur traditional distinctions between the real and its image.