MDS 3601 - Visual Culture & The New Media Env

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Babson College

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4.00 credits MDS3601 Visual Culture and the New Media Environment 4 credit Advanced Liberal Arts We live in a world that is saturated with images. Everywhere we turn we are surrounded by highly sophisticated and alluring visual spectacles. Innovations in media technology, such as digital photography and video, satellite and high definition television, and the ever-changing world-wide-web, have contributed to the dominant role that the visual plays in disparate cultures all over the world. This course will cast a critical glance at the new global visual culture. We will explore theories that address how visual images work and what they do for and to us. We will look back at the rise of modern visual culture and forward to emergent trends that we still don't fully understand. Through course readings, discussion, and both creative and analytical projects, students will gain a deeper understanding of the new visual environments that they inhabit. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts (HSS, CVA, LVA)

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4.00

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Institution Website:

www.babson.edu

Phone Number:

(781) 235-1200

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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