MAKING COMICS 1

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Translate autobiographical stories, interviews and fictional stories into illustrative comics form. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Illustrate, label, and compose on a daily basis in journaling style. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Identify and apply methodologies for teaching others to create comics. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Read, analyze and discuss a wide variety of comics and comics related articles. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Develop technical facility with materials involved in making comics including basic ink pens, color pencils, watercolor, Chinese ink and brush, and different types of drawing papers. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Design, create and assemble a 32-page publication as a final project Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Will use comics as a means of academic inquiry, along with active engagement with the latest research and scholarly activity of the use of comics in their field of study. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Translate autobiographical stories, interviews and fictional stories into illustrative comics form. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Illustrate, label, and compose on a daily basis in journaling style. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Identify and apply methodologies for teaching others to create comics. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Read, analyze and discuss a wide variety of comics and comics related articles. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Develop technical facility with materials involved in making comics including basic ink pens, color pencils, watercolor, Chinese ink and brush, and different types of drawing papers. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Design, create and assemble a 32-page publication as a final project Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Will use comics as a means of academic inquiry, along with active engagement with the latest research and scholarly activity of the use of comics in their field of study. Audience: Graduate