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Basic type knowledge, and type terminology, an introduction to visual language (elements and principals of design sort of stuff), using photography and illustration.
Actually Josef Muller-Brockmann's The Grahic Artist and His Problems touches on a number of these issues. If you can get permission to make some copies of a few of the parts from it , it would probably be useful.
If you havent read it, its a good primer on some of the issues/decisions designers are faced with in the practical aspects of their work, he talks about what illustraion is good for, and what photography is good for and makes some points that could ultimately help students out when they need to decide which is a more approprimate means of communication.
Ellen Lupton's "Thinking With Type" is also a good resource if you have to teach them some type stuff too, especially since it has some basic assignments and a website to go along with it that includes assignments. From what I have heard its very much a good book that students and teachers can work together on.
Thinking With Type: Tools for teachers >>
http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/…