Course details
Name: ENGL - 115
Title: GRAPHIC NARRATIVES
Section: 01
Semester: Fall - 2024
Credits: 3
Description:
In this class, students will study graphic novels and comics, as well as other forms of visual narrative art (including comic strips, illustrated texts, illuminated manuscripts, etc.) as literary forms. They will learn to contextualize graphic novels and comics as part of artistic traditions as well as important entries into popular culture. The course will also emphasize the formal qualities of graphic narratives--their use of words and images--to enable students to analyze and interpret these texts in sophisticated ways. Students will thus look at graphic narratives from formalistic, social and cultural perspectives. The reading list may include histories of comic production and reception by Robert Harvey, Charles Hatfield, or Roger Sabin, critical introduction to interpreting visual narrative by Hilary Chute, Scott McCloud, or W.J.T. Mitchell, books or collections by Marianne Sartrapi, Harvey Pekar, Alison Bechdel, Art Spiegelman, Aaron MacGruder, Chris Ware, Bryan K. Vaughn, Frank Miller, and/or studies of particular superheroes (Batman, for instance) or comic book producers (DC comics).
Schedule: Monday,Thursday From 12:45 pm To 2:00 pm
Graduation requirements:
- Ethnic Studies (3b)
- Women and Gender Studies (3c)
Teaching Faculty: Rzepka Adam (rzepkaa)
Is course canceled: No