History Through Comics

Catalog description

This course studies history through sequential art and images, comics, and graphic novels, looking at Paleolithic cave paintings, Roman graffiti, Persian bas-reliefs, Mexican murals, and more, with a focus on 20th and 21st-century comics and graphic novels. Topics explored through comics may include: social justice, identity, love, war, discrimination, genocide, hope, resistance, environmental justice, and more. Students will use sequential art and comics as primary and secondary sources, learning how sequential art and comics reflect the concerns and realities of particular times, places, and people. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-3, Cal-GETC-3A)