Faculty First Year Seminars 191EDUC5 - Writing Nonfiction Comics

Sequential or "comic" art is so much more than superhero comics! In this seminar we will learn a little bit about non fiction comics as academic and popular texts, both as consumers of texts but also as writers and illustrators. Students will learn the basics of creating non fiction comics of varying lengths, explore the academic applications of sequential art, visit the Comics Based Research Lab at UMass, and finally write their own mini-comic 'zine on a non-fiction topic of their choosing, while also contributing to a collaborative class volume aimed at first year university students. Students do not need to know how to draw in order to take this class.

First-year (R1ST)