MEDIA 327

Comics and Graphic Storytelling

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 for 2025 will be refreshed around November/December.

Availability 2025

Semester 1

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Professor Neal Curtis

Points

MEDIA 327: 15 points

Prerequisites

30 points at Stage II in Communication or Media and Screen Studies or Transnational Cultures and Creative Practice

Restrictions

MEDIA 222