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The focus will be on both domestic and international political usage of visual rhetoric.\nCourse Outcomes and Objectives\n[Learning outcomes should be phrased with active terminology. Ensure these learning outcomes map to course assessments, so you can measure student success in attaining these.]\nBy the end of this course, you will be able to:\n• critically analyze social mendia\n•perform close readings of images\n•discern contexts that give images political force\n• develop a creative/critical sensibility with respect to images\nCourse Requirements\n[This section should include the major expectations and activities for the course that are essential to earning credit and on which grading is based.]\nQuizzes (weekly) – 25%\nMid-term exam – 40%\nFinal Project – 35%\nGrading Scale\nA: 94-100\n: 90-93\nB+  : 87-89\nB     :83-86\n:80-82\nC+   :77-79\nC      :73-76\n:70-72\nD       : 60-69\nE        : 59 or less\nUniversity Policies\nUpdated mandatory syllabus policies regarding the ADA Act, Safety at the U, Addressing Sexual Misconduct, and Academic Misconduct can be viewed at: \u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://cte.utah.edu/instructor-education/syllabus/institutional-policies.php\" \u0014https://cte.utah.edu/instructor-education/syllabus/institutional-policies.php\u0015\nPreliminary Course Schedule\nWeek1—Intro: Beyond Anthropocentrism  (Jan 6)\n“On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense\" by Nietzsche\nWeek 2 –Images. (Jan 13)\n“The Image Culture” by Christine Rosen \u0013 HYPERLINK \"http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-image-culture\" \\t \"_blank\" \u0014http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-image-cultureLinks to an external site.\u0015\nOn Photography excerpts by Susan Sontag (C)\nErrol Morris, \u0013 HYPERLINK \"http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/10/pictures-are-supposed-to-be-worth-a-thousand-words/?_r=0\" \\t \"_blank\" \u0014http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/10/pictures-are-supposed-to-be-worth-a-thousand-words/?_r=0Links to an external site.\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \"http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg-part-one/\" \\t \"_blank\" \u0014http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg-part-one/Links to an external site.\u0015\nWeek 3 —Social Media Impacts—Changing the mediascape (Jan 20)\n“Is Google Making Us Stupid” by N. 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Heidegger pp. 128-135 (C)\nAnsel Adams- 21 st Century Image Activism\u000b- Ansel Adams: Photography with Intention\u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zxancgfDVg\" \\t \"_blank\" \u0014Ansel Adams: Photog","cbCaiqsUSFdtVmJE","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqsUSFdtVmJE","docx",70292,6,"English","# Course Description\n# Course Outcomes and Objectives\n# Course Requirements\n# Grading Scale\n# University Policies\n# Preliminary Course Schedule\n## Week 1—Intro: Beyond Anthropocentrism (Jan 6)\n## Week 2—Images (Jan 13)\n## Week 3—Social Media Impacts (Jan 20)\n## Week 4—Thinking Photographs (Jan 27)\n## Week 5—The Age of Images (Feb 3)\n## Week 6—The Prophet of New Media—Marshall McLuhan (Feb 10)\n## Week 7—Seeing and the Force/Violence of Images (Feb 17)\n## Week 8—Images and Protest Politics (Feb 24)\n## Week 9—Mid-Term (March 3)\n## Week 10—Spring Break (March 10)\n## Week 11—The Environmental Force of Images and Social Media (March 17)","[{\"question\":\"What is the focus of COMM 5330 Visual Rhetoric and Political Argumentation?\",\"answer\":\"The course focuses on how visual political argumentation is written and spoken about across multiple venues, considering both domestic and international political usage of visual rhetoric.\"},{\"question\":\"What skills will students develop by the end of the course?\",\"answer\":\"Students will learn to critically analyze social media, conduct close readings of images, determine contexts that give images political force, and develop a creative-critical sensibility toward images.\"},{\"question\":\"How is student performance evaluated in the course?\",\"answer\":\"Assessment includes weekly quizzes (25%), a mid-term exam (40%), and a final project (35%).\"}]","COMM 5330 Visual Rhetoric and Political Argumentation - Preliminary Course Schedule | DOCX"]