| Title: | Rhetoric of Comics & Novels |
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| Course Section Number: | RHE-270-01 |
| Department: | Rhetoric |
| Description: | From the first American newspaper comic strips of the late 19th century to contemporary e-comics that circulate around the world, the sequential art of comics and graphic novels represents a historically and culturally diverse, rhetorically rich medium. This course will introduce students to the history and terminology of comics, explore different drawing styles and narrative forms of sequential art through multiple genres of comic books and graphic novels, and analyze how the visual features of comics enact symbolic meaning. To do so, we will read a combination of rhetorical scholarship (book chapters and journal articles) about comics as well as selected comics and graphic novels. Students do not need to have any prior experience with comics or drawing skills to succeed in this course. Students will demonstrate their ability to critically read and analyze comics and graphic novels through a mix of written and oral assignments, including daily in-class discussions, weekly writing responses, monthly artifact analyses, and a semester-long rhetorical criticism paper that addresses the rhetorical construction(s) of identity and culture within a comic or graphic novel of the student's choice. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 15, 2024 |
| End Date: | May 4, 2024 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/16/2024-05/02/2024 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 01:10PM - 02:25PM, Malcolm X Institute, Room 214
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| Faculty: | Proszek, James |
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