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Understanding the Graphic Novel

X458 (1 semester unit in English)

Graphic novels are comic books that use both visual and verbal art to create complex, sustained narratives. In this course we read, analyze, and discuss a variety of graphic novels from different sub-genres within the form: autobiography, social and political reportage, fantasy/science fiction, and intersections between all of the above. Although not a course specifically on how to write and draw the graphic novel, understanding the graphic novel as a reader is a necessary first step towards creating them.

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Wed. June 3, Berkeley

CATHERINE HOLLIS, Ph.D., has a doctorate in English from UC Berkeley and teaches in UC Berkeley Extension's Fall Program for Freshmen. She has published articles on Djuna Barnes, Jean Rhys, and Virginia Woolf, and is working on a project about Victorian mountaineering. She's been reading independent comics since the 1980s.

NOTE: This class is closed. For information about related courses, contact your academic department.

• $395 (EDP 025148)

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