BCOM 311 - Visual Communication

Institution:

Nichols College

Subject:

Business Communication

Description:

This course will explore the psychological and cultural aspects of visual communication, and will introduce students to visual techniques for analyzing, displaying and explaining numerical and statistical data. The cultural and commercial impact of advertising, film, and electronically manipulated data will be studied. Working with photographs, tables, graphs, and templates, students will learn to select appropriate visual formats for presentation of various types of data. Ethical issues related to choice, use and distortion of visual information will be considered. Software programs for Computer-assisted design will be reviewed and applied.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

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Institution Website:

www.nichols.edu

Phone Number:

(508) 213-1560

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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