Semester Hours:3Periodically
This course looks at comic books as a communication phenomenon, with its own sense of genre and rhetoric. The course focuses on visual rhetoric of comic books; how adaptation across media influences our reading of the communication; and how identity is expressed, understood and inhabited in comics. Special emphasis will be given to understanding comic books through cultural studies and critical theory.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: May not be taken on a Pass/D+/D/Fail basis.