This interdisciplinary course integrates theory and practice, and focuses on the study and analysis of visual images. It applies critical thinking to prints, photographs and advertisements, fine arts, fashion and architecture, as well as film, television and new media. It introduces theories of representation and helps develop critical and analytical skills for application in media production and practices.

CILO-1: Recognize how to read images, like how those images are composed, what are the rules and conventions of specific genres. CILO-2: Provide a basic analysis of how the meaning of images is produced, circulated and reproduced, and what are the power relations involved in reading images. CILO-3: Describe the relationship between commodity society and visual culture. CILO-4: Describe how popular culture influences their identity formation and lifestyle. CILO-5: Locate how globalization is visualized through visual images.