2023-2024 University Catalog 
    
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2023-2024 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

FMST 270 - The Rhetoric of Comics


Focuses on the ways that comics - often defined as the interplay of words and images - convey specific messages, whether instructional, narrative, persuasive, or other. Close analyses draw on principles of visual rhetoric, comics scholarship, photography, and related disciplines. Readings cover the theory, history, terminology, and genres of graphic narratives.

Credits: 1.0
Crosslisted: WRIT 270  
Corequisite: None
Prerequisites: None
Major/Minor Restrictions: None
Class Restriction: None
Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression
Core Component: None


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