***The following schedule is subject to change. Refer to the Weekly Agenda posts linked here for up-to-date content.***
Week 1
- Topic: Introductions, What is Communication Design Theory?
- Assignment: Submit Learning Plan and other Welcome Tasks
Week 2
- Topic: Course Site Overview, Course Tools Set up
- Assignment: Reading Response 1 – Why Theory?, Art of Noticing
Week 3
- Topic: Signs and Meaning in Communication Design
- Assignment: Reading Response 2 – Semiotics, Art of Noticing
Week 4
- Topic: The Message Cycle, Roland Barthes
- Assignment: Reading Response 3 – Visual Rhetoric, Art of Noticing
Week 5
- Topic: Concept and Vocabulary Review, Representation and Context
- Assignment: Reading Response 4 – Representation, Art of Noticing
Week 6
- Topic: Concept and Vocabulary Review
- Assignment: Research Essay – Decoding Stereotype in Advertising (First Draft), Art of Noticing
Week 7
- Topic: Marshall McLuhan – The Medium is The Message, Persuasive Social Media
- Assignment: Research Essay – Decoding Stereotype in Advertising (Final), Art of Noticing
Week 8
- Topic: Research Project Presentation Overview
- Assignment: Research Essay Peer Review, Research Project Presentation Outline, Art of Noticing
Week 9
- Topic: Manifestos!
- Assignment: Write your own Manifesto, Research Project Presentation Proposal, Art of Noticing
Week 10
- Topic: Design Influences + Lineages, Review: Avant-Garde to Modernism to Post Modernism
- Assignment: Designer’s Cookbook Week 10, Art of Noticing, Research Project work
Week 11
- Topic: Design Influences + Lineages, Your Designer’s Cookbook posts
- Assignment: Designer’s Cookbook Week 11, Art of Noticing, Research Project work
Week 12
- Topic: Design Influences + Lineages, Your Designer’s Cookbook posts
- Assignment: Designer’s Cookbook Week 12, Art of Noticing, Research Project work
Week 13
- Topic: Design Influences + Lineages: The Digital Revolution / AI is The Message, Your Designer’s Cookbook posts
- Assignment: Research Project Presentation due
Week 14
- Topic: Research Project Presentations, Peer Feedback
- Assignment: Research Project Peer Feedback, Research Project Presentations
Week 15
- Topic: Wrap up, review Final Research Project Presentations
- Assignment: Peer Feedback, Grade Survey, Course Evaluations
- All late and revised work due by May 22nd
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