Visual Storytelling and Graphic Media. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

Catalog description

Prerequisites: ENGL 102 with a grade of C or higher, and one History and Humanities GER 200 level course with a grade of C or higher. This is a process-based course that addresses the relationship between text and image in contemporary visual narratives and asks students to reflect on visual culture by evaluating advertisements, sequential art, prose, poetry, and film. To demonstrate their learning, students will develop compositions in graphic and written mediums and analyze how graphic narratives serve as powerful tools for both aesthetic based and analytical arguments. In addition, students will reflect on how their compositions reshape their ideas about authorship, digital communications, narrative, and consider the ways in which visual composition transfers to other disciplines and professions. The course is built on the idea that composing graphic narratives improves rhetorical awareness, media fluency, and likewise provides opportunities to reevaluate the writing process.