Transfers ToCSUDescriptionThis is a course in the graphic novel, comics and manga as literature. Comics, graphic novels, sequential art, manga–this artform electrifies the page with its interplay of word and image. We are going to become adept at piecing apart the understated brilliance of these books by understanding their particular vocabulary and analyzing them for theme, character and other elements as we would any literary text. We will explore the past and present impact on a diverse society of comic books and graphic novels as artistic expressions and representations of social, political and cultural issues; in this course we will also examine power, powerlessness, and superpowers.Usually HeldThu 11:10am–12:35pm 