FYSP 061 - Comics and the Art of Graphic Storytelling

FC ARHU WINT

4 credits
This seminar investigatesoneof the increasingly influential forms of literature: graphic narrative. Providing a historical overview of the form’s development across the twentieth century, the seminar simultaneously affords students the critical skills necessary to read and understand this inherently interdisciplinary medium. We will read a series of works that define and redefine the genre while illustrating a variety of artistic and storytelling approaches to its central themes: politics, sexuality, class, violence, memory, cultural and ethnic diversity. Works include, among others, Gaiman’sSandman , Bechdel’sFun Home , Spiegelman’sMouse , Satrapi’sPersepolis , Yang’sAmerican Born Chinese , Hwa’sThe Color of Earth .
Does this course require off campus field trips? Yes