Honors College 391AH - Honors Discovery Seminars

This seminar is a required course for Commonwealth Honors College students where students participate in a topical seminar-style course designed by its instructor. While the subject matter of each section is different, advanced knowledge of the topic is not required. While the subject matter of each section is different, the requirements for each section are the same. Individual titles and descriptions of HONORS 391AH sections can be found on the Commonwealth Honors College website.

Open to Senior, Junior, and Sophomore Commonwealth College students only. Comics as a Way of Thinking

Contrary to the association with children at play, comics can actually demonstrate a sophisticated use of visual language that can illuminate relationships between seemingly unrelated concepts. The skillful juxtaposition of words and images, and the sequencing/timing of spatial elements, used by those who make comics, are strategies that encourage readers to be natural inquisitors and thus, better ?see-ers? of the world. This seminar will explore comics as a unique and robust communication form, with an emphasis on understanding comics by making them, and exploring the processes of drawing and sketch-noting. The seminar may serve as a springboard for students to develop new ways of seeing to incorporate visual practices gleaned from comics into their own work in multidisciplinary fields. Participants will learn strategies for using comics to enhance our way of seeing and experiencing the world.