This seminar concentrates on scholarship concerning visual rhetoric and its various synonyms, primarily produced in the United States during the last few decades.  Through classroom exercises, readings, and writings, graduate students will become familiar with various practices of message analysis and evaluation pertaining to pictorial persuasion. Seminar participants prepare and present original research concerning visual rhetoric, including the formulation of research questions, developing an appropriate literature review, and, ultimately, inventing sustained argumentation for a thesis concerning the rhetoric of pictorial works

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