ARHU158V

Explorations in Arts and Humanities; Identity in Graphic Narrative Texts

Restricted to first semester first year students in the College of Arts and Humanities. Art Spiegelman's ground-breaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus ushered in a golden era for graphic novels. This course will examine representations and explorations of identity in graphic narrative texts. Drawing from the fields of literature, philosophy, politics, and gender and sexuality studies, questions we will address include: How do individuals form their identity? Can individuals form an identity free from the influences of family, religion, media, society? How do power structures affect constructions of identity? Also, what are the formal characteristics that make the graphic novel well suited for exploring identity?

Sister Courses: ARHU158A, ARHU158B, ARHU158C, ARHU158D, ARHU158E, ARHU158F, ARHU158G, ARHU158I, ARHU158J, ARHU158K, ARHU158L, ARHU158M, ARHU158N, ARHU158O, ARHU158P, ARHU158Q, ARHU158R, ARHU158T, ARHU158U, ARHU158W, ARHU158Y, ARHU158Z

Past Semesters

Peter Witte

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Average rating: 5.00

Include P/F semesters During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.74 between 38 students*

A-: 15.79%

A: 39.47%

A+: 39.47%

F: 5.26%

* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.