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Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2025
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JWST 230 001 (CRN: 26737)
TRANSCULTURAL COMICS
Long Title: TRANSCULTURAL COMICS
Department: Jewish Studies
Instructor: Amihay, Ofra
Meeting: 3:00PM - 5:30PM M (13-JAN-2025 - 25-APR-2025)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Section Max Enrollment: 20
Section Enrolled: 0
Waitlisted: 0 (Max 99)
Current members of the waitlist have priority for available seats.
Enrollment data as of: 14-NOV-2024 7:38PM
Final Exam: No Final Exam
Description: This course offers a diverse survey of comics and graphic novels from the early days of comics to present graphic novels. We will examine the role transculturalism played in the history of comics, and still plays in present developments in the medium. Our exploration of the genesis of comics will focus on the centrality of Jewish-American figures in this “golden age.” Our investigation of current developments will look back at the influence of the civil rights-, women rights-, and LGBTQ rights movements on the development of 1970s underground comix, and the traces of underground comix in the diversity of 21st century graphic novels. We will address themes as immigration and assimilation, race and ethnicity, sexuality and gender, trauma and memory. An overarching theme will be the inherent hybridity of the medium, and how it serves narratives related to small or disenfranchised communities and offers their authors a unique form of expression.