Course: Visual Literacy in the Newsroom Registration deadline: 28 June Course fee: PHP 10,000 (USD 250 for international students) Scholarship available Class mode: Online Overview Whether you’re a photojournalist; news videographer; broadcast journalist; reporter; blogger; graphic designer; or a picture, video or digital editor, being visually literate is essential for you – in fact, for anyone working in an image-based medium. The course aims to provide you with a solid grounding in visual literacy—a form of critical thinking that not only teaches you how to look at images but also develops your ability to evaluate, understand, interpret, and create visual data. Description In this nine-week online course you will explore a broad range of visual topics; gain a better understanding of the visual image beyond its literal content; comprehend how the eye and the brain work together; recognize Gestalt principles in existing works; appreciate the role of visual tools such as color, tone, direction in formulating a visual message; and analyze works that use visual techniques effectively and be able to explain what makes a visual statement effective or ineffective. Class exercises, projects, guided readings, asynchronous interactions and weekly synchronous chat sessions are designed to immerse you in the basic grammar and syntax of the visual language: from the simplest units of visual information to the psychological implications of color, proximity and movement. Topics Visual Literacy and the Power of Images Visual Tools and Techniques Gestalt Theories of Perceptual Organization Still and Moving Images Graphic Representations of Quantitative Data Visual Analysis Visual Ethics Filmmaker and academic Isabel E. Kenny will handle the course. She is a faculty member of the Department of Communication, Ateneo de Manila University and has previously taught at Boston and Emerson Colleges in Massachusetts, Loyola University of New Orleans and Montclair State University in New Jersey. The Certificate Program offers stand-alone courses that focus on the use of visual images in cross-platform journalism. It seeks to raise the bar for journalism in Asia through short-term university-based training designed for reporters, editors and professionals in allied fields. The two other courses under this program are Mobile Journalism, and Visual Story-telling. For more information, please visit the Certificate Program in Visual Journalism page at acfj.ateneo.edu/?page_id=1737.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 01:59:56 +0000
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