This course will focus on the specificity of art, architecture, photography, film, and the digital media as visual forms with their own distinct ways of communicating meaning. In this course, we will study the anatomy and physiology of the auditory and visual systems, and show these systems are organized to facilitate pattern recognition and object identification. Special attention will be given to processing of oral and written speech in human communication. This course offers theory and practice in expressive prose, the most basic prose mode. Expressive writing emphasizes the writer's self-expression.
Writers learn to select styles and forms appropriate to their personal meaning and purpose.
The course covers writing and editing skills and communication techniques. This course examines the problems caused by the introduction of digital and computing technologies to modern culture. Theories of Meaning How written or spoken statements, gestures, and aesthetic objects come to have meanings. How we recognize and fail to recognize such meanings. The nature, systems, and processes of interpretation.