WRDS 3140: Arguing With Images (WRDS)
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Visual rhetoric and culture teaches students to become proficient and thoughtful users of visual argumentation and to understand how visual rhetoric operates within specific sociocultural and political contexts. Through attention to particular examples of controversies involving images, students learn why and how images matter, and how to leverage the power of images in both an effective and a sensitive way. Assignments require students both to analyze particular controversies involving images, and to create their own images that make controversial arguments. Section information text: Visual rhetoric and culture teaches students to become proficient and thoughtful users of visual argumentation and to understand how visual rhetoric operates within specific sociocultural and political contexts. Through attention to particular examples of controversies involving images, students learn why and how images matter, and how to leverage the power of images in both an effective and a sensitive way. Assignments require students both to analyze particular controversies involving images, and to create their own images that make controversial arguments.
Average GPA: 3.18
Grade distribution records: 125 students across 7 terms.
Grade distribution
| Grade | Students | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| A | 67 | 53.6% |
| B | 30 | 24.0% |
| C | 16 | 12.8% |
| D | 1 | 0.8% |
| F | 9 | 7.2% |
| W | 1 | 0.8% |
Based on 125 student grade records across 7 terms and 5 professors.
Instructors
- Amy Colombo 41 students, Average GPA 2.64
- Aaron Kashtan 30 students, Average GPA 3.37
- Consuelo Salas 25 students, Average GPA 3.68
- Kefaya Diab 24 students, Average GPA 3.17
- Justin Cary 5 students, Average GPA 3.80