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Courses Handbook 2015

This handbook contains information on courses and components (majors, minors, streams and units) at Curtin in 2015.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2014.

GRDE3009 (v.1) Visual Communication

Area: Department of Design
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
TUITION PATTERNS: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Tutorial: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 312006 (v.1) Visual Communication 371 or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 312004 (v.1) Visual Process 272
OR
313305 (v.3) Publication Design 272 or any previous version
OR
GRDE2008 (v.1) Visual Process or any previous version
OR
GRDE2018 (v.1) Publication Design or any previous version
UNIT REFERENCES, TEXTS, OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT DETAILS: The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Syllabus: For this unit you will be exploring art movement in the 20th century. Art movements are the collective terms that are given to work, which share the same ideals, style, technical approach usually over a given timeframe. This unit is about the study of visual theory, rhetoric and visual literacy as well as how design is used to persuade. This will be relevant to those studying the majors of advertising, graphics, illustration and photography.
Field of Education: 100501 Graphic Arts and Design Studies
Result Type: Grade/Mark


Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2015 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2015 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2015 Charles Telfair Inst Mauritius Semester 1 Y        
2015 Charles Telfair Inst Mauritius Semester 2 Y        
2015 Lim Kok Wing Uni Malaysia Semester 1 Y        
2015 Lim Kok Wing Uni Malaysia Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External


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