Communicating Science Through Visual Media

This class, offered jointly by professors at RISD and Brown, will explore the pedagogy and practice of using visual media to convey scientific concepts. The goal of this course will be to assess examples of existing material and create new animations/video that fill an educational need and make science engaging and accessible. Class time will be comprised of lectures, labs, screenings, discussions, critiques and exercises. After an introduction to teaching pedagogy and the basics of animation and visual design, small student teams will be paired with science faculty mentors to create videos and animations that explain scientific concepts.