Comic Studies
Minor
About this program
The Minor in Comic Studies invites you to explore comics as a serious form of expression and analysis. You take a core course — Comics and Culture — and choose nine units of electives in areas like making comics, manga, queer comics, graphic memoir, and visual health communication. At least six units must be upper-division. The program helps you sharpen visual literacy, storytelling insight, and cultural understanding through both theory and production.
Program Curriculum and Requirements
Program Outcomes
- Analyze and express how comics uniquely convey meaning as a distinct medium, identifying significant formal features in their development and speaking to their purpose and contribution to storytelling;
- Articulate a broad understanding of the history and evolution of the comics medium, an awareness of existing and emerging genres and styles of comics across the globe;
- Articulate an awareness of historically significant creators, and the place of individual works in relation to larger contexts;
- Effectively communicate a narrative or idea through the comics form utilizing a variety of different approaches;
- Recognize the ways that they can employ the comics form to speak to real-world situations including an awareness and sensitivity of the way in which working with visual images can provoke different effects than working solely with text;
- Use comics form as a means of self-discovery and expression.