This paper presents a practical electronics curriculum based on visual literacy concepts. The curriculum utilizes a text-less and fully visual method to teach fundamental electronics components and circuit logic. The curriculum is developed for female workers of the garments industry of Bangladesh for whom we are exploring the adoption of a new skill in the era of increased automation. The workers have adequate dexterity and numeracy skills but often lack formal educational qualification for traditional vocational training for electrical services and electronics. Our designed visual and hands-on curriculum aims to develop the same competencies as traditional training but is customized to the educational and socio-economic background of the workers. We present our developed curriculum as well as the findings from implementing the curriculum on two groups of participants. We discuss some intriguing insights into the learning attitudes of our target group and the effectiveness of the visual literacy approach in teaching electronics. © 2019 IEEE.
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