Week 1   
August 21 and 23

In Class: course overview
In Lab: technical skills assessment, software overview, UNM accounts

For next week
Kostelnick Chapter 1 RHETORICAL BACKGROUND
Begin document collection
Material Literacy and Visual Design: Read the following sections: If You Can't Handle This, Technologies of the Visual, Literacy as Design, The Web and Material Matters

Week 2
August 28 and 30

In Class: chapter 1 & Material Literacy review
In Lab: Using Microsoft Word
Class and Lab Exercises: Giza (class) p. 45 & Noonan Information Letter (lab)

For next week
Kostelnick chapter 2 PERCEPTION & DESIGN

Week 3
September 4 and 6

In Class: chapter 2 review
In Lab: Using Microsoft Word
Class and lab Exercises: Client Update pp. 77-78 (class) & Newsletter Redesign (lab)

For next week
Kostelnick Chapter 4 LINEAR COMPONENTS

Week 4
September 11 and 13

In Class: chapter 3 lecture & 4 review
In Lab: Using Microsoft Word
Class and Lab Exercise

For next week
Kostelnick Chapters 8 & 9 PICTURES & ICONS

Week 5
September 18 and 20

In Class: chapters 8 & 9 review
In Lab: Using Paint
Class and Lab Exercises
For next week:
Kostelnick Chapter 9 ICONS

Week 6
September 25 and 27

In Class: Course Project Discussion
In Lab: Using Paint & Paint Shop Pro
Lab exercise

For next week:
Kostelnick chapter 10 SUPRA
Packet: Magolin & Buchanan, "Wicked Problems"

Prospectus Draft Due 10-2

Week 7
October 2 and 4

In Class: course project discussion and "Wicked Problems" discussion
In Lab: Proficiency Exam on Word and Paint
Take Home Midterm

For next week:
Prospectus Revisions: Due AFTER You Receive Commentary via Email.
Midterm Due 10-16

Week 8
October 9
Note: Thursday is Fall Break. No class.

In class: Conferences on Course Project

For next week:
McCloud Introduction and Chapter 1
Bring a comic strip to class

Week 9
October 16 and 18
Note: Meet in DSH 141 both days

Midterm Due 10-16

In Lab: McCloud discussion: comics vs. hypertexts

For next week:
McCloud Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Week 10
October 23 and 25

In Class: McCloud review
In Lab: perception exercise
Class and Lab Exercises

For next week:
Finish McCloud

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Week 11
October 30 and November 1

In Class: McCloud review
In Lab: information architecture

For next week:
Kostelnick chapters 5 & 6 TEXTFIELDS & NONLINEAR COMPONENTS
Packet: Elkins, "A Rebus" and Horton, "The Almost Universal Language: Graphics for International Documents"
Comic Strip Due November 6

 

Week 12
November 6 and 8

In Class: Readings Discussion and Chapters 5 and 6 review
In Lab: HTML
Lab Exercises
Comic Strip Due November 6
For next week
Packet: Myers, "Words and Pictures"

Week 13
November 13 and 15
MEET IN LAB BOTH DAYS
In Class: Review "Words and Pictures"
In Lab: HTML

For next week
Packet: Tufte, "Parallelism: Repetition and Change, Comparison and Surprise"

Week 14
November 20 MEET IN LAB
Thanksgiving Holiday

Project Work and reading discussion on Tuesday

Week 15
November 27
MEET IN LAB BOTH DAYS
Project Work Tuesday and Thursday

For next week
Packet: Tufte, "Visual and Statistical Thinking"
Take-Home Final

Week 16
December 4 and 6

Discussion of reading
Project Work Tuesday and Thursday

Notebook Due 12-7 at 5 pm
Final Project Due 12- 7 at 5 pm
Take-Home Final Due 12-7 at 5 pm