MEDIA 222

Comics and Visual Narrative

Please note: this is archived course information from 2024 for MEDIA 222.

Description

Explores the medium of comics both as an expression of popular culture and as a visual language. Beginning with a history of sequential graphic narrative, the course considers issues around the legitimacy of a popular art form and means of story-telling, as well as the problem of censorship that dominated comics culture especially in the 1950s.

For full course information see the Digital Course Outline. 

Digital Course Outlines are refreshed in November for the following year. Digital Course Outlines for courses to be offered for the first time may be published slightly later.

Availability 2024

Not offered in 2024; planned for 2025

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Professor Neal Curtis

Points

MEDIA 222: 15 points

Prerequisites

15 points at Stage I in Art History or Media and Screen Studies and 30 points passed, or 30 points in Communication or Transnational Cultures and Creative Practice

Restrictions

MEDIA 327