COMM 4650 - Special Topics in Info Design: Critical Design

Credit(s): 3
Lecture Hour(s): 3
Lecture Hours Schedule Type: Lecture
Information design pervades and shapes our world. In this course, students will learn to observe, analyze, and critique how design shapes our relationships, dictates our actions, inscribes values, and sediments privilege. The course will combine cultural analysis and critical theory with information design practice. Students will work in small groups to identify a local issue, and then propose, defend, and implement a project that is meant to act as an intervention to the issue. Students will work in dialogue with those concerned with the focal issue, and learn to adapt their design practices through participation and critical reflection. Each week the course will mix lectures, studio practice, and significant out-of-class project work.

Prerequisite(s): COMM 3600 , COMM 3605 , and COMM 3611 , or consent of the department.
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