Courses in the FIG:
UGST 109 FIG Seminar
XXXX | XXXX | 16469 | 1 Credit
This course invites first-year students to come to deeply explore the place where they will soon be landing. It is a not-on-your-tour introduction to University of Oregon through the understanding of the meaning of place. This interdisciplinary course examines the forces that shaped the campus and how they are reflected in the physical environment around us. Drawings from a range of sources -- including historical archives, oral histories, literature, material culture and the built environment – this course will provide you with a framework for your time at the University, in Oregon, and as an active participant in the continuum of history. Classes will feature a mix of lecture, discussion, and hands-on activities. Students will read from various relevant texts, prepare written responses, participate in and lead class discussions, and have a final campus team scavenger hunt. We aim to get all over campus, primary source materials at the UO archives, and bring your appreciation what it means to be a Duck to a whole new level!
COLT 103 Introduction to Comparative Literature
Monday/Wednesday | 12:00-13:20 | 11566 | 4 Credits
+Dis | Friday | 10:00-10:50 | 11567
The "Introduction to Comparative Literature" series (COLT 101, 102, 103) introduces students to the study of world culture. Each course emphasizes the richness and complexity of world culture, covering a broad array of works from classical Greece to the modern Caribbean, from Shakespeare to the Kenyan essayist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o. However, where COLT 101 and 102 focus primarily on written texts, COLT 103 introduces students to the study of Comparative Literature by considering visual culture from across the world. "Visual culture" is a term that has been used within the discipline for several decades now, and includes topics in world film and digital media; performance and live culture; and, finally, texts that combine word and image (e.g. graphic novels and photojournalism). In many ways the study of visual culture now represents the cutting edge of Comparative Literature as a discipline. COLT 101, 102 and 103 complement each other, and may be taken individually or out of sequence. COLT 103 satisfies both the University's Arts and Letters requirement and the International Cultures multicultural requirement.
ENG 280 Introduction to Comic Studies
Monday/Wednesday | 10:00-11:20 | 12065 | 4 Credits
+Dis | Friday | 11:00-11:50 | 12068
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.
