Communication Studies

Dylan Wolfe, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies

Dylan Wolfe first became involved in the sculpture program in January of 2007 when his Visual Discourse class when out to help with the installation of Chameleon Meadow. Through a total of five visual courses and five independent studies with students and a senior thesis, Wolfe has involved around 120 Communication Studies students in the sculpture program. The courses all had a service-learning component that ties communication studies to the visual discourse and environmental communication to the sculptures program. Students in Wolfe’s current service-learning course (Communication Studies 309, spring semester 2011) will assist in development of a website, a book, and an assessment program based on theories of visual communication and critical research methods. Students in the independent studies have worked on the website (www.naturebasedart.org), book (Format is the Message), gathering and collecting materials, sorted through pictures, PhotoVoice research, and video analysis. Wolfe has also had three journal publications on the sculpture program and three conference presentations. The website for the sculpture program, Naturebasedart.org, was also created in collaboration with students in his classes. Dr. Wolfe’s main emphasis areas are visual rhetoric and environmental discourse.