PD 520 - Teaching with Comics Across the Curriculum

In a world of ever-increasing visual media, graphic novels (and shorter comics) have become an internationally-popular form of text within a wide range of academic disciplines. This course will explore the theory, research, and practice behind reading and writing sequential art narratives (SANs) and the pedagogical strategies associated with effectively using them to teach a wide variety of content across the academic disciplines of visual art, literature, social studies, and STEM (science/technology/engineering/math). Students will read a variety of graphic novels (both fiction and nonfiction), craft their own short sequential art text, and contemplate SAN-inspired instructional activities for classroom implementation within a particular academic discipline. Students will have considerable autonomy throughout the course in choosing texts and topics that align to their own academic disciplines and professional goals/interests.

Credits: 3