LIGN 118. The Language of Comics (4 units)
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Description
How do we understand comic strips, comic books, and manga? We will examine the cognitive structures underlying comics, showing that this visual language of drawing and sequential images is understood similarly to spoken and signed languages. Recommended preparation: LIGN 101. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
Prerequisite courses
LIGN 118 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have LIGN 118 as a prerequisite.