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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2024
College College of Arts
Course Code AM053
Theme・Subtitle Graphic Narrative (2): Chris Ware, David Mazzucchelli, and Nick Drnaso
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus Seminar
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Fall semester
DayPeriod・Room Fri.2・5215
Credit 2
Course Number EAL2411
Language English
Class Registration Method Automatic Registration
Grade (Year) Required 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
prerequisite regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges 履修登録システムの『他学部・他研究科履修不許可科目一覧』で確認してください。
course cancellation ×(履修中止不可/ Not eligible for cancellation)
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy 各授業科目は、学部・研究科の定める学位授与方針(DP)や教育課程編成の方針(CP)に基づき、カリキュラム上に配置されています。詳細はカリキュラム・マップで確認することができます。
Notes
Text Code AM053

【Course Objectives】

In this class, students will learn how to analyze and describe the structure and content of graphic narrative. This course will focus on the visual and rhetorical mechanisms of the graphic novel and will involve the study of narrative both as a form of communication and as a visual/poetic device.

Students are expected to attend class every week and participate actively in each of the class sessions. Students will be expected to complete all of the weekly readings and writing assignments. And all students are required to submit (and revise) a research paper on one of the texts discussed during the course.

Course Texts will include:

- Chris Ware, "Rusty Brown" (2019)
- David Mazzucchelli, "Asterios Polyp" (2009)
- Nick Drnaso, "Sabrina" (2018)

【Course Contents】

Successful completion of this course should indicate an understanding of . . .
1. the cultural, aesthetic, and historical influences surrounding 20th and 21st century American graphic narrative
2. the structure and visual poetics of graphic narrative
3. some of the many means of analyzing comics and other graphic texts

This course also involves the development of the following skills . . .
1. the ability to identify the visual and verbal components of a graphic text
2. the ability to analyze the content of a narrative
3. the ability to compose (and revise) a coherent essay in English

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