About the course

This is a distance course with two separate weeks of on-site work in Malmö, during which students learn how to plan, prepare, and execute journalistic and documentary comics of their own; also they learn how to interpret and assess comics in these genres. To be able to do this, the course introduces principles of journalism and documentation and reflects on practical, ethical, and cultural implications of comics journalism. Everybody on the course will produce documentary and journalistic comics after introductory and specialist workshops. The course aims to provide and develop methods for analysis of individual comics and comics-corpora as a source for academic research. The course will be taught in English.

Experience in drawing, journalism, storytelling etc. is not necessary, but an advantage. The course is intended for students who want to communicate in sequential images and texts. It is our belief that everybody can learn to do this. To be able to participate and benefit from the course, some existing experience in academic studies is required (30 HP in an unspecified subject).

Course content

Syllabus spring 2024

Earlier syllabuses

Entry requirements and selection

Entry requirements

30 university credits.

Selection

Upper secondary grades 34%, University credits completed 32%, Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (SweSAT) 34%

Course literature

Primary literature on documentary and journalism:

  • Bonner, Frances (2013): "Recording Reality: Documentary Film and Television" in Stuart Hall et al. (eds.): Representation. 2013; 60-119.
  • Lefèvre, Pascal: “The Modes of Documentary Comics” in: Dietrich Grünewald (Hg.): Der dokumentarische Comic Reportage und Biographie. Berlin: Ch. A. Bachmann, 2013; 50-60.
  • Ashkenazi, Ofer & Dittmar, Jakob: "Negotiating Documentation in Comics" in: International Journal of Comic Art, Vol. 20:1, Spring/Summer 2018; 587-597.

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Up to 1000 pages of short texts, book chapters, comics and other graphic visual material can be added, and will be supplied via the course's Canvas-page or the university library.

Also up to 300 pages of webcomics can be added.

Course evaluation

The University provides students who participate in or who have completed a course with the opportunity to make known their experiences and viewpoints with regards to the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarize the results of course evaluations as well as informing participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures initiated in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).

Contact

For more information about the education:

K3student@mau.se

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