Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
In thirty class meetings, we will cover the history of comics beginning with their earliest beginnings (the Swiss Rodolphe Toeppfer, the German Wilhelm Busch and the Frenchman Christophe) up to the present day and even the present moment. Since we cannot be exhaustive regarding this subject, the course will will particularly emphasize the contribution of American comics and of Franco-Belgian comic books (Tintin, Spirou, Vaillant, Pilote). The complexity of this logo-iconic genre and its principal lines of force are at the center of the course, which combines various approaches - semiotic, aesthetic, sociological, anthropological and narratological.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
- recognize a work seen in the class (or whose author has been mentioned in class) and place it in its context of creation
- justify this identification by observation elements (style, "graphic school", narration, subject addressed in the work)
- define the different components of the expression in comic with the correct terminology : drawing, cutting, layout (according to the terminology of Benoît Peeters or Thierry Groensteen) ...
- analyze a comic board by identifying and evaluating the relevance of the creative schemes it implements
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
None.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture with a substantial iconography.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face.
Recommended or required readings
Recommended reading :
McCLOUD, Scott, L'Art invisible, Paris, 2007 (1e éd. fr. 1999).
GROENSTEEN, Thierry, Système de la bande dessinée, Paris, 2011.
Any session :
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions )
- Remote
written work
- If evaluation in "hybrid"
preferred in-person
Additional information:
Written examination
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Secretary's office
04 366 53 83