RELG 044. Reading Comics and Religion

This course focuses on how notions of Religion and the Sacred arise in comics and graphic novel texts. Drawing upon world religious traditions, the course will explore how comics use both text and image to frame spiritual identity, sacred practice, and religious experience. Using comics as primary sources, the class will engage the expression, imagination, and critical interpretation of religion through close readings of comics as texts, with analysis of their visual forms. Coursework includes weekly lab meetings within a digital media maker's space. The course will culminate with the production of student-created comics, which will be developed over the semester and supervised by an artist-in-residence.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Catalog chapter: Religion
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion

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