Liberal Arts Courses

Graphic Narratives

Course No. WRHC 319  Credits: 3.0

Are you fascinated by the graphic novel or graphic memoir? Interested in making designed or visual texts? In this class, we will investigate a variety of ways that texts and images interact to tell stories: how the visual and the verbal engage and catalyze each other, how they can reflect and inflect, reinforce, strengthen and gesture to each other in compelling, powerful and meaningful ways. To this end, the class will examine and practice different graphic storytelling methods used in telling fictional, jounralistic and/or personal stories. The course will also involve the history of graphic narrative and the differnt ways that graphic and visual narratives have been and may be theorized. Assignments will include critical and creative responses to our readings and a creative project involving an integration of writing and visual media. Primary readings are likely to include comics, film and video, visual essays and full length graphic novels and memoirs. 3 credits. Prerequisites: WR 203.