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COURSE REQUEST Last Updated: Heysel,Garett Robert 3350 - Status: PENDING 10/26/2017 Term Information Effective Term Autumn 2018 General Information Course Bulletin Listing/Subject Area Hebrew Fiscal Unit/Academic Org Near Eastern Languages/Culture - D0554 College/Academic Group Arts and Sciences Level/Career Undergraduate Course Number/Catalog 3350 Course Title In the Beginning Was the Word…and the Image: Genesis in Graphic Narrative Transcript Abbreviation BibleComics Course Description This course will examine the varied and rich interconnections between graphic narrative and narratives in the Bible, focusing on the historical and aesthetic development of comics and the graphic novel and the ways in which biblical narratives can be read as literary texts and sequential art. OSU's Billy Ireland Comics Library and Museum will be a constant resource for the course. Semester Credit Hours/Units Fixed: 3 Offering Information Length Of Course 14 Week Flexibly Scheduled Course Never Does any section of this course have a distance No education component? Grading Basis Letter Grade Repeatable No Course Components Lecture Grade Roster Component Lecture Credit Available by Exam No Admission Condition Course No Off Campus Never Campus of Offering Columbus Prerequisites and Exclusions Prerequisites/Corequisites English 1110 Exclusions Electronically Enforced No Cross-Listings Cross-Listings Subject/CIP Code Subject/CIP Code 16.1102 Subsidy Level Baccalaureate Course Intended Rank Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior 3350 - Page 1 COURSE REQUEST Last Updated: Heysel,Garett Robert 3350 - Status: PENDING 10/26/2017 Requirement/Elective Designation General Education course: Visual and Performing Arts The course is an elective (for this or other units) or is a service course for other units Course Details Course goals or learning • Students demonstrate knowledge of the history and development of comics and graphic narratives in the United objectives/outcomes States. • Students perform a close reading of comics, using field-specific terms and incorporating visual and narrative analysis, and situate the texts in their cultural, political and historical contexts. • Students can differentiate and compare approaches to common themes within texts from diverse social and historical contexts. • Students analyze, appreciate, and interpret significant works of art. • Students engage in informed observation and/or active participation in a discipline within the visual, spatial, and performing arts. Content Topic List • Comics Comics and Religion Genesis and art Bible and art Literary approach to bible Hebrew bible Bible as literature Graphic novel Graphic narrative Jewish culture Israeli culture American Comics Sought Concurrence No Attachments • Syllabus - Hebrew 3350 - Bible Comics.docx: Hebrew 3350 Syllabus (Syllabus. Owner: Smith,Jeremie S) • GE Visual and Performing Arts Expected Learning Outcomes_Comics_genesis.docx: Hebrew 3350 - GE Assessment Plan (GEC Course Assessment Plan. Owner: Smith,Jeremie S) • GE Rationale for Visual and Performing Arts_Heb Bible_comics.docx: Hebrew 3350 - GE Rationale (GEC Model Curriculum Compliance Stmt. Owner: Smith,Jeremie S) Comments 3350 - Page 2 COURSE REQUEST Last Updated: Heysel,Garett Robert 3350 - Status: PENDING 10/26/2017 Workflow Information Status User(s) Date/Time Step Submitted Smith,Jeremie S 10/26/2017 10:28 AM Submitted for Approval Approved Liu,Morgan Yih-Yang 10/26/2017 10:44 AM Unit Approval Approved Heysel,Garett Robert 10/26/2017 12:11 PM College Approval Nolen,Dawn Vankeerbergen,Bernadet Pending Approval te Chantal 10/26/2017 12:11 PM ASCCAO Approval Oldroyd,Shelby Quinn Hanlin,Deborah Kay Jenkins,Mary Ellen Bigler 3350 - Page 3 Hebrew 3350: In the Beginning Was the Word…and the Image*: Genesis in Graphic Narrative Syllabus Term: Fall 2018 Instructor: Dr. Lynn Kaye Credit Hours: 3 Office: Hagerty 361 (Mailbox in Hagerty 300) Class Time: W/F 11.10-12.30 Office Hours: M/W 9.30-10.30, and by Location: TBA appointment Email: [email protected] Office Phone: 614-688-1552 Course Description This course will examine the varied and rich interconnections between graphic narrative and narratives in the Bible, focusing on two main aspects. First, it will look at the historical and aesthetic development of comics and the graphic novel, media to which biblical motifs contribute from the first graphic novel, Will Eisner’s A Contract with God (1978). Second, it will study the ways in which biblical narratives as literary texts on the one hand, and sequential arts on the other hand, engage four central themes in divergent and mutually illuminating ways: creation and the artistic process, personal choice and the responsibility of being chosen, contracts, rule-keeping and rule-breaking, and the origins and meaning of human conflict. Students will read biblical texts closely (with attention to stylistic elements such as character development, narrative themes and structure) and then analyze interpretations of those texts in comics. At the same time, students will practice close reading of sequential art and graphic narrative, both their visual aspects (panel design, drawing style, connections between panels) and verbal/textual features (dialogue balloons, narrative boxes) along with overall narrative development. This will make it possible to consider each work’s use of biblical motifs to advance its own concerns, which may differ from those of the biblical narratives with which it engages. The course will take advantage of OSU’s exceptional resources in the Billy Ireland Comics Museum and Library, and is inspired by a 2015 exhibition at the Israeli Comics Museum in Holon - research help from the museum archive and its head of collections is gratefully acknowledged. *This sentence is not from Genesis, but rather from the New Testament, but its reference to words made it a neat title. Learning Objectives GENERAL EDUCATION: Visual and Performing Arts 1 Goals: Students evaluate significant works of art in order to develop capacities for aesthetic and historical response and judgment; interpretation and evaluation; critical listening, reading, seeing, thinking, and writing; and experiencing the arts and reflecting on that experience. Expected Learning Outcomes: 1. Students analyze, appreciate, and interpret significant works of art. 2. Students engage in informed observation and/or active participation in a discipline within the visual, spatial, and performing arts. This course develops students’ analytical skills and ability to appreciate significant works of art within the medium of graphic narrative, through engaging with a variety of examples of sequential art (comics), combining words and images. Students acquire and use technical and theoretical language to analyze and interpret comics and the ways meaning can be produced in this hybrid visual/textual art-form, through secondary readings and practice in class discussions, and close-reading assignments, both written and oral. Students use critical language and analytical categories to deepen their appreciation of the works and to enhance their ability to describe what they see and experience. This informed observation and participation in the field of comics and sequential arts coalesces around comics’ engagement with biblical narratives, primarily form the book of Genesis, as foundational myths and references for their own themes and concerns. The theoretical concept of “intertextuality” challenges students to understand the complex ways that texts, whether visual or literary, communicate and connect with other texts within and across time and cultures. Assigned texts include significant examples of comic arts from the US (see below) as well as plays that enrich the themes under discussion and connect with the comics and biblical texts, such as the 2008 television play, “God on Trial.” Class discussions are enriched with visual analysis of paintings and sculpture relating to the Genesis narratives, as points of comparison, giving students further opportunities to engage in informed observation in the broad field of visual arts, whether comics or other media in visual arts. Finally, students contextualize the works of art in their original social, political and historical contexts, while assessing their continued relevance or resonance today. Course-Specific Expected Learning Outcomes: 1. Students demonstrate knowledge of the history and development of comics and graphic narratives in the United States. 2. Students perform a close reading of comics, using field-specific terms and incorporating visual and narrative analysis, and situate the texts in their cultural, political and historical contexts. 3. Students can differentiate and compare approaches to common themes within texts from diverse social and historical contexts. 2 Teaching Method: Lectures and Discussion Required Texts: 1. The Jewish Study Bible, JPS, 2nd Ed., ed. Marc Zvi Brettler and Adele Berlin, 2015 2. Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Narrative, 1981 3. Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, 1993. 4. Douglas Wolk, Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean, 2008 5. Elie Wiesel, “The Trial of God” paperback ed. Schocken, 1995 6. Various articles available as .pdf on Carmen All of the comics below are either available on Carmen, or on reserve at the Billy Ireland Comics Library and Museum Reading Room (M-F 9am-5pm, Su 1pm-5pm). 7. Master Race by Bernie Krigstein (& Al Feldstein) in: Impact #1, EC Comics, USA, April 1955 available online at: https://fromdusktilldrawnblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/master-