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“If I could say it, I wouldn’t have to dance it” (Isadora Duncan):
A Philosophical Investigation of Multimodality
INSTRUCTORS
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Words, images, physical gestures, musical sounds, virtual worlds – these modes of human functioning can integrate in various combinations in order to create and communicate understanding. This is multimodality. Always of interest to philosophers and artists, multimodality is becoming more universally relevant in the 21st century. This course will study, and exemplify, multimodality from a philosophical perspective.
Main themes:
Philosophy and multimodality; musical meaning; philosophy of language; virtual reality and metaphysics
Knowledge and Skill Goals:
(1) ability to analyze the components of multimodality (as used by others) and assess their effectiveness
(2) ability to use multimodal resources effectively in independent projects
COURSE SCHEDULE & DETAILED DESCRIPTION
READING AND MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES
PROPOSED EVALUATION METHODS FOR THE COURSE
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
BIFRÖST (ENTRY PAGE)
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