VISST 3555

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VISST 3555
Comics as a Medium

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

What are comics? While it's easy to identify a cartoon, graphic novel, or comic book, it's hard to understand the wide world of comics. As a medium, comics are part of a global tradition of visual storytelling and sequential art, including premodern tapestries, early modern pamphlets, and modern children's books, political cartoons, and animated films. With a focus on the German-speaking world, we will examine a wide range of comics genres (e.g., fiction, history, autobiography, journalism, comix) and formats (e.g., books, strips, pamphlets, zines). Our discussions will address questions of taste, aesthetics, materiality, censorship, representation, and word-image relations. While we will primarily be reading and writing about comics and comics studies, students will also gain some exposure to making comics.


Distribution Requirements (CA-AG, LA-AG), (ALC-AS)

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 3555, PMA 3555, SHUM 3555

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  •  9144 VISST 3555   SEM 101

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    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Schoppelrei, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Primarily for: seniors and juniors.