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Visual Literacy Skills: How to See

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Overview

Syllabus

  • 01: Visual Power: What It Is and Why It Matters
  • 02: Seeing as a Skill
  • 03: Sensing and Perceiving: How You See
  • 04: Should You Believe What You See?
  • 05: Representation and Illusion
  • 06: Elements of Visual Syntax
  • 07: Visual Foundations: Dot, Line, and Shape
  • 08: Visual Foundations: Value
  • 09: Visual Foundations: Color
  • 10: Visual Foundations: Texture
  • 11: Visual Foundations: Space
  • 12: Thinking in Three Dimensions
  • 13: Building in Three Dimensions
  • 14: The Limits of Space: Visual Landscapes
  • 15: Principles of Design
  • 16: Exploring Visual Time
  • 17: Strategies for Visual Storytelling
  • 18: Symbol, Subject, Content, and Context
  • 19: Making Choices: Material, Method, and Style
  • 20: Cultivating Creative Habits
  • 21: The Visual Life: Active Observation
  • 22: The Visual Life: Exploring and Connecting
  • 23: The Visual Life: Collecting
  • 24: The Visual Life: Becoming a Maker
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Carrie Patterson

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