First Year Discovery Linked Seminar: Spaces, Places, and Bodies: An Introduction to Visual/Spatial Rhetorics

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In simple terms, rhetoric is the use of symbols to communicate. Visual rhetoric goes beyond traditional written texts and can involve the use of visual symbols, spatial orientations, and performances of bodies. This seminar introduces students to visual, spatial, and materialist rhetoric, including rhetorical analysis of visual artifacts; real and imagined spaces; and bodies that are performing or represented in texts. For full seminar description go to College of Letters & Science Academic Programs website: https://www.duels.ucsb.edu/academics/seminars/list