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LIGN 118The Language of Comics

4 units · LIGN · UC San Diego

How do we understand comic strips, comic books, and manga? We will examine the cognitive structures underlying comics, showing that this visual language of drawing and sequential images is understood similarly to spoken and signed languages. Recommended preparation: LIGN 101.

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

From the catalog: “upper-division standing.”