The College of Media is offering a new class for the second eight week term of the Fall ‘13 semester.

 MDIA 199 Envisioning Information is a unique experimental course, developed with input from advertising and journalism faculty, that seeks to instill in students of all majors the hands-on skills and critical thinking needed to display information more quickly, more powerfully, more memorably and more believably using charts, graphs and other visual techniques. These skills are not only useful academic skills, they are clearly professional skills as well.

Taught by Eric Meyer, author of the book “Designing Infographics” and winner of numerous design awards, the course will explore data visualization processes and techniques suitable for a wide range of media, from newspapers, magazines, websites and broadcasts to newsletters, advertisements, institutional reports and corporate presentations.

Students will explore both theory and practice, visual and statistic literacy, while working in a computer lab with Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint, Adobe Illustrator and Flash and HTML 5/CSS 3 in a slower paced, more generic version of Meyer’s Multimedia Editing and Design course.

The course will meet 3:00- 5:50 Tue and Thur. It will be a 3 credit hour course.