Recent ProfessorsNot yet assignedRecent SemestersNo scheduled sections on recordClass SizeNot publishedCredits3PrerequisiteENGL C1000 or ENGLISH 101 or 101X or 101Y or 101Z or E.S.L. 110 Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2DescriptionThis class looks critically at comics and graphic novels as literature. The class will begin chronologically with the origin of comics and move to current graphic novels. In addition, the class will explore character, plot, dialogue, setting and other storytelling elements using various literary lenses such as New Criticism, Feminism, and other focuses to analyze the futures and fantasies created by graphic fiction writers and illustrators. 