![]() Encourage community building among first year students, provide students with an opportunity for academic mentoring and intellectually socialize students to the University.ġ.Introduce students to group-based learning, what it means to be a life-long learner, and the enjoyment of learning and.Acquaint students with the Chicago Metropolitan area, its neighborhoods, cultures, people, institutions, organizations, or issues.Promote the Vincentian values of community service and respect for diversity.Develop student’s writing and rhetorical skills through classroom exercises, and projects.Involve experiential learning through participation, direct observation, personal discovery, and reflection.Research on historical Chicago topics and references in the graphic novel. There is in this course the occasion to do some small group projects such as taking photographs and discussing some examples of real estate, homes, businesses and other visual backgrounds that Ware includes in the graphic novel. Moreover the work of Chris Ware focuses on Chicago experiences including – The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair / Columbian Exposition – the Chicago Public Schools, Chicago based small businesses and larger corporations, Chicago’s weather, and architecture. The text – Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth Chris Ware – has the diversity of ethnic minority characters and the relationship between the Chicago landscape and its immigration patterns.įurthermore because of the visual nature of the graphic novel and its stress on Chicago landscapes and buildings, students will gain and greater awareness of the city and its varied physical appearance. The assignments will be written projects and the course will require in-class discussion of the materials under consideration. The course will combine classroom study with field trips to local comic book stores and a possible meeting with the author of our text. This course will ask students to use and interpret the works of a local comic book author and artist to understand the interplay of the city and his work. Using selected monographs (from the Course Packet on Multicultural Comics), and other ERES sources, students will write bi-weekly “summary / reflective / reaction” papers. We will study his work for its important Chicago urban, narrative, history and visual themes. Its author, Chicago resident, artist / writer Chris Ware is a creator of comic books and graphic novels whose narrative / visual context has received notable critical attention. This course will focus an analysis and scholarly examination of the “Chicago-based” graphic novel – Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth. A study of the texts of these subcultures should reveal a fresh perspective on the issues of diversity, and a unique view of the city. ![]() ![]() It is concerned with the interests and activities of subcultures such as those in popular media. Course Description:Understanding the cultural diversity of Chicago involves more than a study of race and ethnicity.
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