Creating a Graphic Narrative ((4 Credits))

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Students in this course will study Graphic novels as a significant and influential part of the literary canon, capturing both personal odyssey and cultural events while heightening awareness of larger historical, political, and social issues. The student will have the opportunity to study, as resource material, what pivotal comics figure Will Eisner termed, 'Sequential Art,' and practice the nuances of storytelling through narrative and pictures. The student will then plot, write, and design a graphic manuscript of one of several genres: memoir/personal narrative, current/historic events, fictional, children's/YA narrative, or a subgenre with approval by the mentor.