The calendar below identifies important due dates, special events, and which course readings should be read when. Please come to class having read the material on the day it is listed.

Week 1

• Monday, August 23: Introduction to the Course
• Wednesday, August 25: Introduction to Ceilidh, Course Website Development (Lab)
• Friday, August 27: Mapping Visual Rhetoric

Week 2

• Wednesday, Sept. 1: Review of Class Website, Course Assignments (Lab)
• Friday, Sept. 3: Elkins, The Object Stares Back (1-124)

Week 3

• Wednesday, Sept. 8: What Is Multimedia? (Lab)
  • Excerpt from DeLillo's Underworld (handout)
• Friday, Sept. 10: Elkins, The Object Stares Back (125-242)
  • Contract Proposals Due!

Week 4

• Wednesday, Sept. 15: Barry, Visual Intelligence (191-249) (Lab)
• Friday, Sept. 17: Screening of Hitchcock's Rear Window
  • Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (handout)
  • Modleski, The Women Who Knew Too Much (1-15)

Week 5

• Wednesday, Sept. 22: Discussion of Rear Window (Lab)
  • Modleski, The Women Who Knew Too Much (73-85)
• Friday, Sept. 24: Screening of Hitchcock's Vertigo
  • Modleski, The Women Who Knew Too Much (87-100)
  • Clarification Projects Due!

Week 6

• Wednesday, Sept. 29: Discussion of Vertigo (Lab)
  • Modleski, The Women Who Knew Too Much (115-21)
• Friday, October 1: Covino, Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy (1-88)

Week 7

• Wednesday, October 6: Film on the Web (Lab)
• Friday, October 8: Covino, Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy (89-152)
  • Information Projects Due!

Week 8

• Wednesday, October 13: Discussion of Covino, cont. (Lab)
  • Mitchell, Picture Theory (363-416)
  • Covino on Spike Lee (handout)
• Friday, October 15: Barry, Visual Intelligence (1-103)
  • Presentations!

Week 9

• Wednesday, October 20: Barry, Visual Intelligence (107-55) (Lab)
• Friday, October 22: Barry, Visual Intelligence (157-89)
  • Mitchell, Picture Theory (398-416)

Week 10

• Wednesday, October 27: Barry, Visual Intelligence (253-338) (Lab)
• Friday, October 29: Fall Break (no class)

Week 11

• Wednesday, Nov. 3: Mitchell, Picture Theory (1-107) (Lab)
• Friday, Nov. 5: Mitchell, Picture Theory (109-50)
  • Exploration Projects Due!

Week 12

• Wednesday, Nov. 10: Mitchell, Picture Theory (151-207) (Lab)
• Friday, Nov. 12: Special Guest Lecture
  • Mitchell, Picture Theory (209-322)

Week 13

• Wednesday, Nov. 17: Visual Communication on the Web (Lab)
• Friday, Nov. 19: Robbe-Grillet, The Voyeur (3-71)

Note: Nov. 20-28 is Thanksgiving Vacation

Week 14

• Wednesday, Dec. 1: Robbe-Grillet, The Voyeur (3-71)
• Friday, Dec. 3: Screening of Hitchcock's Psycho

Week 15

• Wednesday, Dec. 8: Robbe-Grillet, The Voyeur (75-140)
• Friday, Dec. 10: Robbe-Grillet, The Voyeur (143-219)

Final Exam Week

• Thursday, Dec. 16, 12:50: Final Projects Due!