Dear Communication and Culture students,
I would like to let you know about the course Comics as Memoir, offered at Collins Living-Learning Center, the second eight weeks of Fall 2010. Classes will meet Mondays and Wednesdays, 4-5:15. The course is two credits, and counts as an elective if you don't live in Collins. If you have any questions about the course, please email me at mathewse@umail.iu.edu.
Below is the course description:
How are comics so popular as pleasure reading, and yet so sought after by scholars as fodder for their methodologies? This class will take as its purview comics, webcomics and graphic novels from the last decade or so, and investigate the themes and meanings of each. We will look at memoirs, discussing issues of time, space, memory, liminal zones, and culture through the intersection of image and text. We will also use scholarly articles, showing the rich field of scholarship that has sprung from comics. For assignments, students will write weekly responses to the readings, and undertake an independent project with a presentation. We will also take several field trips, including Boxcar Books, Microcosm Publishing, and have several guest lectures by local scholars and artists to enrich the learning experience.
Thank you,
Emilee Mathews
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Emilee Mathews
M.A. Candidate in Art History, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
M.L.S. Candidate in Library Science, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
