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HIST 3287 - Seeing History through Comics: New Perspectives on the Contentious Past (3 Cr.) Civic Life and Ethics, Historical Perspectives

History Department (10968) TCLA - College of Liberal Arts

Course description

Comic-form histories offer new perspectives on the past. Focusing on cases of contentious history, this course will examine how varying perspectives (shaped by class, gender, race, or geo-political position) appear in comic histories. We will compare comic accounts with more traditional forms of historical analysis of select contentious events of modern U.S., European, African and East Asian history.

Minimum credits

3

Maximum credits

3

Is this course repeatable?

No

Grading basis

OPT - Student Option

Lecture

This course fulfills the following Liberal Education requirement(s)

Historical Perspectives, Civic Life and Ethics

Fulfills the writing intensive requirement?

No

Typically offered term(s)

Periodic Spring