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Did You Know! You Can Travel Abroad AND Earn Units Towards Your MALAS MA!? Schedule an Appointment with Your Graduate Director and Find out More!

Sand, Sun, Fun, and MALAS in San Diego, California--a Next-Generation Cultural Studies/Interdisciplinary Program

Explore the Future of Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Digital Humanities at SDSU #sdsumalas

MALAS, The Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences, Hosted a Group of New Undergraduates from In and Around Athens, Georgia to a Tour of SDSU! #sdsumalas

MALAS Fall 2019 Seminar! MALAS 600D: Rhetoric of Visual Composing with Professor Jennifer Sheppard

 























Rhetoric of Visual Composing
RWS 543/MALAS 600D
Professor Jennifer Sheppard

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Visual messages are a powerful way to inform, persuade and educate. Within professional settings, the ability to communicate effectively with supervisors, co-workers, clients, and public audiences through combinations of visual, textual, and technological elements is an invaluable skill. This course takes a rhetorical and professionally-oriented approach to analyzing, organizing, and communicating ideas, educational content, and specialized information through visual and multimodal means. The course readings will introduce you to research on visual communication, basic design and layout strategies for print, presentational, and online contexts, and the use of images and data visualization to convey specialized content. Research and practitioner materials will be used as a basis for evaluating the rhetorical choices in the visual communication work of others and for learning how to apply these concepts to visual composing projects common to the workplace (e.g. a proposal and an infographic/visual data display). The focus throughout the course will be on learning to evaluate and craft texts that integrate effective visual strategies to create user-friendly, informative, and persuasive texts for professional audiences. In addition to focusing specifically on the visual, this course will also consider these affordances and constraints in relation to other modalities, including textual, spatial, gestural, and auditory. Being better aware of how multimodal rhetorical choices influence an audience can help you to be more critical of what others are saying to you, as well as to make use of these strategies in your own communication.

Biography

Jennifer Sheppard is an Assistant Professor in the Rhetoric and Writing Studies Department. Her research focuses on the intersection of theory, practice, and pedagogy in digital writing, visual and multimodal rhetoric, and professional communication. Her work has appeared in Computers and Composition, Journal of Literacy and Technology, Hybrid Pedagogy, and several edited collections, including Designing Texts: Teaching Visual Communication. She is also co-author of Writer/Designer: A Guide to Making Multimodal Projects, published in its second edition by Bedford/St. Martin’s in 2018. Dr. Sheppard has been at SDSU since 2014 and is the winner of the 2018-2019 College of Arts and Letters Excellence in Teaching Award. As San Diego State, she has taught a wide range of courses, including everything from first-year writing to upper division courses in visual and popular culture rhetorics and professional writing to graduate seminars in rhetoric, literacy, and technology. She has also served as the Associate Director of the Lower Division Writing Program where she collaborated in curriculum development and the training and mentoring of new graduate teaching assistants. Dr. Sheppard holds a B.A. in Liberal Studies and an M.A. in English from California State University Chico and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Technical Communication from Michigan Technological University. 

Jennifer Sheppard, PhD 
Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric 
Dept. of Rhetoric and Writing Studies 
San Diego State University 
619.594.2696 
jsheppard@sdsu.edu  

Section Details:

Course	MALAS-600D
Course Title	RHETORIC OF VISUAL COMPOSITION
Section	02
Schedule #	22248
Units	3.0
Session	FALL CAMPUS
Seats	7/10
Meetings	Seminar 1400-1515 MW SH-126 J. SHEPPARD
Full Title	Seminar: Media Studies, Fine Arts, Transformative Arts
Description	MALAS seminars are divided into four general areas with content that varies semester to semester. Each course may be repeated once with new content. See Class Schedule for specific content. Maximum credit six units for each of the following courses: MALAS 600A, 600B, 600C, 600D.
Prerequisite	Graduate standing.
Footnotes	05 Stacked with RWS 543. Not open to students concurrently enrolled in or with credit in RWS 543 (Rhetoric of Visual Composition). ZL The following student levels are allowed: Graduate.

Congratulation!!! Four more MALASheads on their way to their MAs!

Congratulations to Stewart Parker, Marc Ellis, Chelsea Carter, and Bhishmadut Contractor, our four MALASheads who just finished taking their comprehensive MA exam! Results forthcoming soon!

MALAS a proud co-sponsor of the IMPACT ZONES Surf Conference at SDSU!

Click the link beneath the groovy poster to be transported to the main surf conference website!

https://surfconf.sdsu.edu

MALAS Co-sponsors the Appleby Lecture Today @SDSU | Featuring Harvard University's DAVID CARRASCO!

MALAS Faculty on the Move! Check out Raechel Dumas's new piece on Japan, Gaming, and more!

MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI @ SDSU TODAY, MAR 13 2019 - 2-4:00pm DIGITAL HUMANITIES CENTER - LA 61 Love Library

MARK Z. DANIELEWSKi

MAR 13 2019 - 2-4:00pm

Award-winning author Mark Z. Danielewski comes to San Diego State this Spring as part of the programming for the Library's exhibit Death of the Death of the Novel: the Larry McCaffery Archive. Danielewski is the author of the bestselling novel House of Leaves, National Book Award finalist Only Revolutions, and the novella The Fifty Year Sword.

With Pantheon's release of the five volumes of The Familiar, the New York Times declared Danielewski "America's foremost literary Magus." He is the subject of many scholarly books and articles, including Joe Bray and Alison Gibbons's Mark Z. Danielewski and Sascha Pohlmann's Revolutionary Leaves: The Fiction of Mark Z. Danielewski.

His books have been translated into multiple languages.

Contact Prof. Jessica Pressman: jpressman@sdsu.edu, Amanda Lanthorne alanthorne@sdsu.edu

MARK Z DANIELEWSKI
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2019 AT 2PM
DIGITAL HUMANITIES CENTER - LA 61 (BOTTOM OF LIBRARY DOME)

Co-sponsored by MALAS, the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences

Ana Castillo @ SDSU | MAMA SCHOLARS EVENTS ! Co-sponsored by MALAS, The Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences Program @SDSU #sdsumalas

 

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You are invited to the MamaScholars: Mothering in Academia Series. This series is organized with the goal of building community and opening healing spaces for MamaScholars. The series aims to create academically-informed consciousness-raising spaces for mothers and allies about the particular needs of mothering across culture, race, ethnicity, class, citizenship status, gender, sexuality, size, age, ability, and relationship status. In order to do this, we’ve invited scholars, community activists, and healers of color to promote educational tools for creating positive self-agency. At the heart of our vision is creating a mothering collective that advocates for mothers' needs in support of their academic goals.

Mothering in Academia Series is organized by the Nepantleras Feminist Collective and Dr. Irene Lara, and supported by the Student Success Fee (SSF), the Women’s Studies Department, Women’s Resource Center, SELACH, MALAS, Latin American Studies, Africana Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Safe Zones, and ONE SDSU Community. 

Schedule:

MARCH 21, 6 - 7:30 pm: 

Ana Castillo Community Reading at National City Library. No registration required.

 

MARCH 22, 9am-12pm or 1-4pm. Writing Workshop at SDSU. Pre-registration required (bit.ly/AnaCastilloWorkshop), limited capacity.  

 

MARCH 23, 8:30am - 4:30pm. SDSU Scripps Cottage. Registration required (bit.ly/MamaScholars)

For more Details:

info/contact: hello@Nepantleras.org

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SDSU Press Proud to Co-Sponsor the Wendelmoot Symposium Event of the Year! Blacktinx Queer Performance | E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon Rivera-Servera, Northwestern University

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Blacktinx Queer Performance: Crossing Beyond the Crisis of Bordered Identities

  

In this presentation, E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon Rivera-Servera will discuss their ongoing research collaborations around issues of black and Latinx (“Blacktinx”) queer performance. They will pay particular attention to the history of earlier coalitions of black and latinx queers that lay the groundwork for queer artists to create work that moves beyond hard-and-fast boundaries of ethno-racial identities

Mark your calendars! The Wendelmoot CRISIS CRISIS Symposium Series is proud to bring E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon Rivera-Servera to SDSU!

#wendelmoot is a project of the SDSU Department of English & Comparative Literature--this event is co-sponsored by the LGBTQ Research Consortium-SDSU, the College of Arts and Letters at San Diego State University--The Official Page, M.A.L.A.S. The Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences, and San Diego State University Press.

wendlemoot.sdsu.edu

Check out more about our amazing dynamic duo from Northwestern University here and here:

https://communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/RamonRiveraServera

https://www.afam.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/e-patrick-johnson.html