LS 677 - Understanding Comics: The World of Graphic Literature

(3.00 cr.)

Comics, narratives which juxtapose words and images in sequential panels, have been with us as long as written language itself. Graphic literature today is challenging, vibrant, promiscuous, forthrightly multicultural, and often aggressively independent. In this course, students experience a wide array of graphic literature, explore the inherently interdisciplinary nature of the medium, and try to take the full measure of its sophistication.