Visual Literacy Digital Badge

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The Visual Literacy digital badge is a competency badge offered through a collaboration of faculty in the MSU Denver Department of Art and Department of English. Earning this badge demonstrates an individual’s ability to understand and interpret visual imagery and to communicate their interpretations effectively in writing. Content and skills are learned and demonstrated through academic coursework. 

Earning Criteria

Participants earning this badge are required to submit a written formal analysis of a work of art, design or architecture; write an effective interpretation of an example of visual culture in a research paper; and conduct a rhetorical analysis of an example of visual culture.

Competencies Demonstrated

1. Understand and describe the elements and principles of design as articulated in an example of visual culture. 
2. Analyze a work of art, design, or architecture based on aesthetic principles. 
3. Communicate an analysis in written form. 
4. Create effective interpretations of visual culture using critical frameworks and art historical methodologies. 
5. Relate social and cultural contexts to the meaning of an example of visual culture using art historical methodologies. 
6. Compose a rhetorical analysis on an element or concrete aspect of visual text. 
7. Analyze how rhetoric relates to historical and cultural contexts of a visual text. 
8. Apply an argument and method of interpretation to an everyday visual text and/or the visual material of everyday.