2025-2026 University Catalog 
    
    Aug 29, 2025  
2025-2026 University Catalog

FMST 371 - The Rhetoric of Comics


Focuses on the ways that comics - often defined as the interplay of words and images - convey specific messages, whether instructional, narrative, persuasive, or other. Close analyses draw on principles of visual rhetoric, comics scholarship, photography, and related disciplines. Readings cover the theory, history, terminology, and genres of graphic narratives.

Credits: 1.0
Crosslisted:   
Corequisite: None
Prerequisites: None
Major/Minor Restrictions: None
Class Restriction: None
Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression
Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation
Core Component: None
Formerly: FMST 270


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