Course Detail

21/WI DAH-347-A
HISTORY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN

Instructor: Cieply
Department: LIBERAL ARTS
Credits: 3   Instruction Method: ONHY
Status: CLSD

This course surveys the historical and nonhistorical innovations that have taken place in graphic design from 1850 to the present. Students discuss the impact of various technologies and their influence on the resulting forms and functions of the objects/images presented. The social and political climate of past cultures and their contextual relationship with design are considered. Thus, students come to understand design as visual communication that speaks of its time and place. This course satisfies the General Elective requirement.

Start Date: 2021-01-19 End Date: 2021-05-08
Meeting in: ONL
Room: ONLINE
Days: T
Start Time: 4:00 PM
End Time: 6:45 PM