Visual images have power.
Nike knows that. Pictures sent from Mars during the recent Pathfinder mission needed no words of explanation. Calvin College wants to help its students understand the power of images. It would be the first such course at Calvin, one that professors from a variety of disciplines say is long overdue. During 1998, a group of 10 Calvin faculty members from such disciplines as art, communications, classics, geography, history, literature and philosophy will meet twice a month to talk about the development of a course at Calvin in visual rhetoric.