Text and Image

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Considers the relationship between word and image in a range of media objects, including comics, graphic novels, visual essays, graffiti, novels, paintings, and cinema. Also engages the long philosophical tradition of thinking about the relationship between seeable and sayable in such thinkers as Horace, Gotthold, Lessing, Freud, and Foucault. Prerequisite: 10.0 university credits including 3.0 CUST credits or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for CUST 3080Y, 3580H, or 4080Y.