Schedule – The Secret Language of Comics

Week	Date	Assignment	Writing due
1	1/11	Introduction to the class
	1/13	Andrea Lunsford, “Rhetorical Situations” and “Reading Rhetorically” from Everyone’s an Author Allie Brosh, “Adventures in Depression, Part One” from Hyperbole and a Half.	Read the syllabus and leave a comment on this post Create WordPress site Join the Slack workspace X-pages exercise
	1/16		Sketch 1: Avatar
2	1/18	Randy Olson, “Introduction: Why Science Needs Story” (pp. 1-21) Allie Brosh, “Adventures in Depression, Part Two“
	1/20	Sousanis, Nick. “The Importance of Seeing Double and Then Some” and “The Shape of Our Thoughts,” from Unflattening. Stitches — first 2/3rds of “I was six” (pages 8-63)
	1/23		Sketch 2: Sunday Sketches
3	1/25	Dan Roam, “First Draw a Circle, then Give it a Name” (chpt 3) from Draw to Win Stitches — rest of “I was six” and “I was eleven” (64-156)	Literacy Narrative, part 1
	1/27	No class: Return to campus.
	1/30		Sketch 3: Visual Note Taking
4	2/1	Hillary Chute, “Comics for Grown-Ups” from Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere Stitches — “I was fourteen” (157-242)
	2/3	Scott McCloud Making Comics, chpt 1 Stitches — “I was fifteen” & “A few years ago I had the following dream. In the dream I was a boy of six again” (243-329)
	2/6		Sketch 4: Combophoto
5	2/8	Fun Home — chpts 1 (Old Father, Old Artificer) and 2 (A Happy Death)
	2/10	Fun Home — chpts 3 (That Old Catastrophe) & 4 (In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower)
	2/13		Sketch 5: Triptych
6	2/15	Hillary Chute, “Introduction: Women, Comics, and the Risk of Representation” from Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics. Fun Home — chpt 5 (The Canary-Colored Caravan of Death)	Literacy narrative comic storyboard (in class)
	2/17	Fun Home — chpts 6 (The Ideal Husband) & 7 (The Antihero’s Journey)
	2/20		Sketch 6: What’s in your bag?
7	2/22	Sabrina — 1-50
	2/24	Sabrina — 51-100	Tracing Pages
	2/27		Sketch 7: Quadriptych
8	3/1	Sabrina — 101- 157	Literacy Narrative, part 2
	3/3	Sabrina –158-204
	3/6		Data gathering for sketch 8
	3/7-11	No class: spring break
9	3/15	Gender Queer — 1-85
	3/17	Gender Queer — 86-150	Literacy Narrative, part 3
	3/20		Data gathering for sketch 8
10	3/22	Gender Queer — 151-end
	3/24	Kindred — Introduction, Prologue, The River, The Fire (4-57)
	3/27		Sketch 8: Data viz from everyday life
11	3/29	Kindred — The Fall (58-99)
	3/31	Kindred — The Fight & The Storm (100-209)
	4/3
12	4/5	Kindred — The Rope, Epilogue, About Octavia Butler & About the Adaptor and Artist (210-240)
	4/7	Paying the Land (part 1: “You find yourself in a circle“)
	4/10		Sketch 9: Recreate a movie scene
13	4/12		Halfa Kucha, day 1
	4/14		Halfa Kucha, day 2
	4/17		Sketch 10: Mix Tape
14	4/19	Paying the Land, part 4
	4/21	Conclusion	Revise projects, portfolio reflection letter, edit website
	4/24		Sketch 11: Assemblies
		Final Exam Period (no exam, but that’s when your final portfolio is due)	Final Portfolio and Reflection Letter

This schedule is subject to change as the semester progresses. Changes will be indicated in the table above and I will also announce significant changes in a blog post.