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Dr. Maria Tarasova will discuss the introduction of a visual thinking course into an honors curriculum, and the abilities of the course to develop honors students as individuals with skills, competencies and strengths essential for a successful career in any professional field in the twenty-first century.

This NCHC Virtual Meeting--which will be broadcast live from Krasnoyarsk, Russia--provides insight into answers to the following questions:

• Why is it important to improve honors students’ visual thinking?
• What do the classes in visual thinking look like?
• What are the learning outcomes of a visual thinking course?
  

Some key takeaways participants will leave this NCHC Virtual Meeting with include the following:

• Visual thinking represents the skill that enables students of different specializations to enhance their critical thinking, creativity, cognitive flexibility and system thinking capacities, by means of operating with visual models and creating visual concepts.
• In honors classes during the course students progress in their visual thinking skills by means of communication with pieces of visual art, learning to analyze, synthesize, grasp the essentials, understand compositional principles that structure works of art as the visual forms of thought.
• Highly developed visual thinking implies improving the skills of observation, envisioning, reflection, questioning, explaining, evaluation and expression.
• In the course students acquire the skills of expressing and implementing ideas and master their abilities of argumentation while dealing with visual concepts. Honors students learn modes of constructing and comprehending visual concepts, acquire the skills to identify various kinds of arguments in critical visual thinking and progress in their visual literacy.
  

Facilitator

Dr. Maria Tarasova | Siberian Federal University

Dr. Maria Tarasova is an art historian and she teaches visual thinking to students of SibFU Honors College in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Dr. Tarasova is currently working on a tutorial for Visual Thinking in Honors Education. The tutorial will provide guidelines for implementing a visual thinking course in honors programs and colleges worldwide.