Share Paper: Visual Literacy and Higher Education's Syllabus

1. Evelyn Mocek, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, United States

Abstract: Visual literacy requires an active cognitive processing of stimuli to provide an individual with an interpretation of a visual message. During this process, the right side of the brain will provide an emotional response to the image, whereas the left side is sequencing and categorizing the image to previous learning. Visual composition including design, aesthetics and point of view all play a role in the viewer’s perceived response to an image. The syllabus is utilized to provide students with key information regarding course expectations. Application of multimodal information delivery including textual, visual and auditory may enhance the integration of learned ...