Minor in Comic Studies
Program Learning 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.
Comic Studies Minor — 12 units
Students completing the minor will be required to take one core course and 9 additional units of electives.
A minimum of 6 upper-division units are required to complete the minor.
All coursework used to satisfy the requirements of the minor must be completed with a minimum grade point average of 2.0.
Core (3 units)
Code | Title | Units |
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HUM/CMX 235 | Comics and Culture | 3 |
Electives (9 units)
Select at least three of the following for a total of at least 9 units:
Code | Title | Units |
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CMX/HUM/LS 304 | Making Comics | 3 |
CMX 540 | Topics in Comics Studies | 3 |
CMX/HUM 541 | Manga | 3 |
CMX 542 | San Francisco Underground Comix | 3 |
CMX 543 | Queer Comics | 3 |
CMX/HUM/LS 604 | Advanced Comics Making | 3 |
CMX/HUM 625 | Advanced Readings in Comics | 3 |
COMM 428 | Health Communication in Visual and Graphic Medicine | 2 |
ENG 300/C W 501 | Graphic Memoir and Biography | 3 |
GER 620 | German Comics in English: Encounters, Conflicts, and Changes | 3 |
GEOG/PH 434 | Geographies of Health and Health Care | 3 |
HIST 304 | Teaching History with Comics | 3 |
WGS 580 | Feminism and the Speculative: Another World is Possible | 3 |