Visual Literacy Synthesized: A Content Analysis of Syllabi to Build a Better Visual Literacy Course

摘要

Introduction Visual communication, such as the cave paintings at Lascaux, has existed throughout the course of human existence, serving as a means of expression long before written forms of language.~1 Today, communicating visually continues to be of vital importance. Humans process images faster than text, have the ability to better recall what is seen over what is read, and can understand images in a global context when words are lost in a particular language.~2