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COURSE SYLLABUS: Visual Communication Concepts


Course Title: JC316 - Visual Communication Concepts
Department: Political Science
Instructor: Dr. Deryl Gulliford - E-Mail | Personal E-Mail |  Vita
E-mail dgullifo@canyoncollege.edu
Personal E-mail deryl@pldi.net
Phone (office BlackBerry®/cell): (405) 219-6715
Phone (cell): (405) 219-6227
Phone (home): (405) 285-1974
Pager: (877) 724-3711, PIN 5539
Address: 118 Gardenwood Dr, Holdenville, OK 74848-9528


Course Description:

This course presents a thorough discussion of visual communication, emphasizing symbols and signifiers and their importance in communicating, learning and understanding. The key concept is “visual literacy” and we present a wide variety of ways to achieve this in modern communications and modern organizations.

Text: Online Bookstore

Visual Communication. First Edition. Racine, Ned. ISBN #: 1576853934 LearningExpress. March 2000.

This text is available through barnesandnoble.com and several other proprietary websites.

Course Format
br> This course is divided into four units, covering text chapters as follows:

Unit 1 - Chapters 1-2
Unit 2 - Chapters 3-4
Unit 3 - Chapters 5-6
Unit 4 - Chapter 7-9

Communication with Instructor

Students are expected to communicate with the professor weekly during the course term. A brief e-mail update is sufficient, although the professor will be pleased to discuss any matter by phone during the work day or during the evening hours at home.

Evaluation

There is a written essay examination for each Unit, and a Scholarly Paper (approximately 10 pages in length) is required for completion of the course. The Scholarly Paper topic and outline must be approved prior to writing. There is no final examination for this course.

Grade Weighting

Each Unit Exam is worth 20% of the course grade, and the Scholarly Paper is worth 20% of the course grade.

Course Topics: Students should expect to study the following topics in the process of completing this course: About the Professor:

Dr. Gulliford is CEO of Seiling Hospital in Seiling, Oklahoma. He has fifteen years of experience in senior healthcare management. His clinical background includes work in respiratory care, critical care medicine, non-invasive and invasive cardiology, and cardiovascular perfusion. Dr. Gulliford is Vice-President of Pioneer Health Network, a group of 18 Kansas and Oklahoma hospitals, and Vice-President of the Kansas Hospital Association Southwest District. He was recently elected to Chair the newly formed Small and Rural Hospitals Division of the American Academy of Medical Administrators. He has published seven books and over thirty journal articles to date, with special interest and emphasis on visual communications in these works.

Dr. Gulliford’s philosophy:

………..therefore however you want people to treat you, so treat them.
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