HIST 1425

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HIST 1425
FWS: Writing Historical Graphic Novels

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

In this course we will learn how to create our own short historical graphic novel based on a primary source (or a series of primary sources) from the Cornell Archives. The goal of this project is to learn how to find primary sources, to transform them into a historical narrative, and to communicate this narrative in an engaging manner—the primary work of historians. The first half of the semester will be dedicating to reading graphic novels and meeting with their creators to talk about the process. In the second part of the semester, we will be working closely with the staff at the Olin Library's Rare and Manuscript Collections to identify a primary source, craft a narrative, and give it an artistic form.

When Offered Fall.

Satisfies Requirement First-Year Writing Seminar.

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20194 HIST 1425   SEM 101

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    • TR
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Tolan-Szkilnik, P

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.