Skip to main content

CAS Visual Literacy

The visual has become increasingly important as the range of digital tools and communication channels continues to grow. Visual messages in analogue and digital media are shaping communication and the associated contents and interpretations of our world more than ever. The CAS Visual Literacy introduces specific fields of visual communication and teaches currently required competences and skills. Visual  messages in the context of typography, photography, video, posters, publications, websites, and UX/UI are designed in an applied manner and reflected upon in a theoretically analytical way.

Key data

Degree
CAS FHNW Certificate of Advanced Studies
ECTS points
15 ECTS
Next start
after successfully participating in at least 5 weeks of either the Summer or Winter Workshops of HGK FHNW
Teaching language
German / English
Place
Basel
Price
View Fees below

Choice mandatory modules

Editorial Design

Next Start: 5 February 2024

to Editorial Design

Combining Typefaces

Next Start: 12 January 2024

to Combining Typefaces

Poster Design

From summer 2024

to Poster Design

Type Design

From summer 2024

to Type Design

Inquiry by Design

From summer 2024

to Inquiry by Design

Elective Modules

Share: Media technologies and arts education

Next Start: 13 January 2024

to Share: Media technologies and arts education

AI, AR and Creative Coding- Learning and Applying Digital Tools for Visual Arts Education

Next Start: 17 January 2024

to AI, AR and Creative Coding- Learning and Applying Digital Tools for Visual Arts Education

Moving Graphics

Next Start: 22 January 2024

to Moving Graphics

Generative AI in the context of art and design

Next Start: 29 January 2024

to Generative AI in the context of art and design

From-Web-To-Print

Next Start: 19 February 2024

to From-Web-To-Print

Biographical Storytelling with Virtual Reality

Next Start: 22 February 2024

to Biographical Storytelling with Virtual Reality

Game Design

Next Start: 26 February 2024

to Game Design

Perception Studies

From summer 2024

to Perception Studies

Institute Digital Communication Environments (IDCE)

Through digital media and the democratisation of communication channels that goes hand in hand with it, the critical handling of their visual and interaction-based design has become decisively more important, because the social relevance of information and communication has thus fundamentally changed.

visit the Institute

Institute Digital Communication Environments IDCE

FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland Basel Academy of Art and Design, Institute Digital Communication Environments (IDCE) High-rise: D 5.03 Freilager-Platz 1 CH - 4142 Münchenstein near Basel