Meetings, Readings, and Assignments
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Topic | Reading/Deadline | |
| Sep. 7 | Introduction to the course; the language of comics | McCloud 24-59 | Sep. 14 | Continuity; introduction to cinematic storyboards | McCloud 60-93 Begleiter 1-9 |
Sep. 21 | Time frames; storyboarding conventions | McCloud 94-118 Begleiter 11-52 |
| Sep. 28 | Quantification | Tufte 27-54 Unit Project 1 Due |
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| Oct. 5 | Pictorial instructions and specifications | Tufte 55-72 Begleiter 53-84 |
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| Oct. 12 | "Smallest effective difference"; extended frames | Tufte 73-78 Begleiter 107-24 |
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| Oct. 19 | Parallelism; introducing Flash | Tufte 79-104 Unit Project 2 Due |
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| Oct. 26 | Multiples; More Flash | Tufte 105-20 | |
| Nov. 2 | Web usability | Reading T.B.A. (handout) | |
| Nov. 9 | Complex systems and "flow" | Csikszentmihalyi (handout) Douglas (handout) |
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| Nov. 16 | "Visual confections" | Tufte 121-51 Unit Project 3 Due |
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| Nov. 23 | Beyond print | McCloud (handout) Manovich (handout) |
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| Nov. 30 | Class does not meet: Thanksgiving holiday | No reading | |
| Dec. 7 | Information as a life-form | Johnson (handout) | |
| Dec. 14 | More on artificial life | Johnson (handout) | |
| Dec. 21 | Class does not meet | Unit Project 4 Due | |
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