The Visual Story: Graphic Novel, Type to Tablet

3-0-9 units. HASS-A · Undergraduate

Focuses on the interactions between graphic stories and media technologies, from the rotary press of the late 19th century to contemporary touch screens, exploring the changing relations among narrative expression, reader experience and media form. Working with examples from early press, through classic superhero comics and graphic novels, to modern interactive and non-linear texts, examines such elements as graphic design, interface, and form as well as the circulation and economies of these various media-based texts. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.