Facilitator Welcome Message to Students

 

Welcome to our class ICO 050T! I am delighted to have you in this class for this semester. This course is deliberately designed to conform to the Problem Based Learning (PBL) mode of delivery. PBL, a learning and teaching approach which Daystar University has recently adopted, provides learners with opportunities to identify solutions to ill-structured, real-world problems. We shall all be learning to learn, so let us commit to be available and to support one another in the learning process. I look forward to a meaningful interaction throughout the semester.

 

Communication

 

The students have the instructor’s personal number and e-mail address. Please make use of them to raise questions and concerns on the course. Do not wait until the last minute to raise your questions on the writing assignments. Those who feel they may need extra attention in certain areas of the course are welcome to schedule appointments with the instructor outside of the class days.

Course Purpose

 

Visual communication in contemporary media typically combines a range of resources - written, visual, aural, and 3/4D.

 

The course intends to develop a set of techniques and frameworks to analyze these complex texts, especially their visual components.

 

We will consider a range of images and texts across a variety of media platforms, from newspapers, advertisements, magazines, to web sites, and cultural objects.

 

We will further develop a ‘grammar’ for analyzing these texts and the role they play in making meaning, in professional, public and personal contexts of communication.