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Sep 16, 2024
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ENG 273 - Comic Books as Literature Credits: 3 Description This course will examine the power of comic books as they create and manipulate the significance of historical, social, political, and cultural issues within the framework of critical reading and literary analysis.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate understanding of the unique literary contribution of comic books and graphic novels as well as how these texts differ from other media, such as prose and film.
- Analyze representative works in order to interpret their styles, themes, and audience expectations, and compare and contrast the styles, themes, and audience expectations of works by several different artists/writers.
- Effective use and understand literary terms in written work as they relate to how literary value is defined and accorded to artistic works.
- Identify important historical, cultural, political, and economic factors that have influenced comic book artists/writers.
Prerequisite: ENG 100 or ENG 101 or ENG 101H or ENG 110 or ENG 113 with a grade of C- or higher; or Department Chair or Instructor approval Corequisite: None
Graded: Letter Grade
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