New
Media I: Narratives &
Semiotics introduces students to the foundations of
narrative and the study of signs (visual, linguistic,
social) that support solid, persuasive, and innovative
new media construction.
The course is primarily based
on reading, viewing, discussion and applied textual
and visual critique. The course is equally divided between
the study of linguistic or text-based theory and the
study of visual design theory.
Students must submit a fully
revised seminar-length visual and textual essay examining
the narrative and semiotic structure of a complex new
media work and a complex “canonical” literary,
theoretical, or visual text. Students must also complete
a fully revised proposal for a small new media project
they will build and display in New Media II. |
