Eastern Michigan University | Winter 2015 | Written Communication MA

WRTG540: Visual Rhetoric

& Information Design

WRTG540: Visual Rhetoric and Information Design provides an introduction to theories and
practices for understanding and creating visual elements commonly used in written
communication. Students will study examples of visual rhetoric and information design,
propose a visual strategy project, gain experience designing documents and graphical elements
as part of the strategy, and arrange samples into a portfolio.

Mondays, 6:30-9:10 p.m.

Pray-Harrold 313
CRN: 26710
Dr. Derek Mueller
derek.mueller@emich.edu

Winter 2015 registration opens on

Wednesday, November 5, 2014.

Open to graduate students from

all programs who seek elective
credit.

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Takao Umehara; the closed eye by Samarin Nikita; the snowflake by Yazmin Alanis; and the mortar board by Elliot Midson.