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Course Descriptions

ENL257
The Graphic Novel
Exploration of a recent and still emerging genre of narrative literature. The course will tie together various cross-disciplinary approaches in an investigation of several significant modern novels that use both words and images to tell their complex tales. Course topics include Words and Images; Perception and Interpretation; Visual Thinking; Literary Roots of Sequential Art; Underground Comix as Satire and Critique; Krazy Kat and Surrealism; Time, Space and Planes; Women and Sequential Art; Culture, Power and Pleasure. 3 Credits (3 Lecture - 0 Lab) Prerequisite(s): ENL111. As needed.