LITR 285 Graphic Narrative: Words, Image, Culture

This course explores past and present comics, graphic novel perspectives and the influences of visual culture upon the ways in which human interactions are represented through the convergence of text and images. With an emphasis on the creative and critical processes and products of those who have mastered hybrid image/text forms, students will critically read, discuss and write about significant literary and graphic image contributions to the field. Participants will also investigate their own lived experience with comics, graphic novels and Visual Culture. Students will learn to see beyond the received definitions and applications of comics and graphic novels to discover new cultural, aesthetic, historical, economic, etc. connections with graphic narrative forms. We will examine the works of: Art Spiegalman, Gotthold Ephriam Lessing, Scott McCloud, Will Eisner, Chris Ware, Alison Bechdel, Marijane Satrapi, Mike Mignola, Alan Moore and David Gibbons, Jeremy Lowe, Aaron McGruder, Guy DeLisele, and many others.

Repeatable: N
Formerly 52-3752
HL
Prerequisites ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3