Introduction to Poetics and Visual Communication

Quarters
Fall Open
Location
Olympia
Class Standing
Freshman
Sophomore
Leonard Schwartz
Arlen Speights

In this one quarter program we will explore the interrelationships between literature, typography and film. Writers have often thought about how the abstractions of language might best realize the concrete experience of seeing; typography, from the Renaissance to today's digital typography, realizes words as visual systems; cinema involves the interaction between word, image (and sound) in endlessly surprising ways. This class will involve readings in literature; history and design workshops in digital typography and vector drawing; and a film series to which students will be asked to respond ekphrastically (meaning - with detailed descriptions of precise visual elements) in writing.

Registration

Academic Details

literature, writing, film studies, design, typography

14
46
Freshman
Sophomore

Schedule

Fall
2023
Open
Hybrid (F)

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Day
Schedule Details
Olympia