How can we help our students to better understand the visual arguments that surround us all every day? How can students become more aware and critical consumers of the photographs, web sites, posters, advertisements, and other visual arguments that are so prevalent in our society? Through this interactive, online workshop, Jack Selzer will demonstrate a practical approach to the rhetorical analysis of visual rhetoric.

Participants will go through the process of analyzing together a controversial and challenging visual argument--one that first appeared in a prominent national magazine and that later attracted commentary by the well known sportswriter Rick Reilly. Participants will interact with the session leader and with each other in a way that simulates the classroom environment, and they will leave the session with a tested, practical sense of what is involved in teaching visual rhetoric and the analysis of visual rhetoric--successfully.

Speakers

Jack Selzer, Director, Paterno Fellows Program at Penn State