Academic Team:
Robert Voelker-Morris (rmorris1@uoregon.edu)
First-Year Experience Seminar Instructor
Mazzy Zimmerman (mazzyz@uoregon.edu)
FIG Assistant
9 credits
UGST 109 First Year Experience Seminar – 1 Credit
CRN: 16270: T: 4:00-5:20pm, PLC 072
ENG 280 Intro to Comic Studies – 4 credits
CRN: 11905: TR: 10:00am-11:20am, LIB 101, +DIS CRN: 11906: F: 11:00am- 11:50am, ANS 195
ASIA 399 Special Studies – 4 credits
CRN: 10641: TR: 2:00pm-3:20pm, HED 146
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About the FIG:
Art for action! Comics for change! In what ways does art show us the world around us, our history, and who we are? Using comic books and contemporary media we will explore the ways in which artists and authors tell our personal and cultural narratives.
In this class, you will also create art and explore hands-on what it means to be an artist. Together, we will imagine and compose artistic and cultural stories in comic book form.
Deep Dive FIG: Please note this FIG contains an intermediate course at the 300-level. This course has been vetted by First Year Programs to ensure first-term students can achieve success. The instructor will be available to assist students along the way.
ENG 280 Introduction to Comic Studies - CoreEd or major satisfying course
This course provides an introduction to the analysis of comics and graphic narratives in terms of their poetics, genres, forms, history, and the academic discipline of Comics Studies. Our multifaceted examination will balance close readings of primary texts with in-depth research and analysis of the development of the form in U.S. culture. By reading a range of comic-art forms (the newspaper strip, the comic book, the graphic novel, etc.), informed by several examples of contemporary comics scholarship, we will investigate the medium’s complex interplay of word and image as well as the role of cultural factors in the publication history of comics.
Fulfills A&L, English Major, Lower-Division Elective, English Minor, Comics Studies Minor
ASIA 399 Special Studies - Elective satisfying course, Applies to overall degree
Japanese fashions, games, manga, anime, toys, music, and more have spread worldwide and have created a new form of national superpower. Anime has played an important role in international events like the Olympics; anime fan cons are held around the world and attract tens of thousands of people. What makes Japanese popular culture so fascinating? We will look at how various kinds of people have used Japanese popular culture to form communities, make statements about gender and identity, and to overturn cultural stereotypes. We will analyze how Japanese popular culture both “belongs” to Japan and has become an “international “culture, linking people around the world.