Letter for the GST review committee/Declaration of the "Year of Viz Cult"

Everyone,

Welcome new peeps, glad to have you here. Yeah, whatever oldies.

So we are still planning on a meeting in Arts West at 4:15 on September 30th, with whining, yeah you know what that means (and if you don’t — I’ll give you a hint, that means there will be refreshment), but I thought it might be best to go ahead and circulate a draft of a letter we have been working on to send to the GST review committee.

The letter (or manifesto in helvetica, as I have nicknamed it) asks the committee to consider the following statement as they review the General Studies curriculum:
“To be critically literate our students need to be able to interpret visual material, construct knowledge in visual modes, and understand how the visual is constructing them.”

It would be better to get this letter to the committee sooner rather than later so I am attaching a copy of the draft here. I welcome comments, suggestions, additions, omissions between now and Tuesday morning, September 14th. After that time I will edit what we have and get it in the hands of the review committee.

It’s going to be a good year for viz cult. In fact, I declare this “the year of viz cult” That’s howe good it’s going to be.

Best,

Evan