Program Overview (continued...)
Visual Literacy at the University of Nebraska refers to a collection of courses cooperatively designed, taught and administered by the Colleges of Architecture, Fine and Performing Arts, Education and Human Sciences, and Journalism and Mass Communications. The Visual Literacy program consists of interrelated studio and lecture courses taken each semester of the first year. These courses are required of all first year students interested in the design professions and the fine arts.
Visual Literacy investigates the ways we as a society communicate our beliefs and values through the artifacts we make. It enables students to explore the formal qualities of the visual world and to develop new sensitivities toward their visual environment. Beginning design students will develop an expanded awareness of their surroundings and an understanding of the potential for visual images and constructed artifacts to express their own ideas and observations about the world.
Visual Literacy at UN - L is a "Program of Excellence" and as such benefits by partial support from the Office of Academic Affairs which provides funding to grow academic programs into national prominence.
