Documentary Comics
International students
International students
About the course
This is a distance course with two separate half-weeks of on-site work in Malmö, during which students learn how to plan, prepare, and execute documentary comics of their own; also they learn how to interpret and assess documentary comics. To be able to do this, the course introduces principles of journalism and documentation and reflects on practical, ethical, and cultural implications for documentary comics. Everybody on the course will produce documentary 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.
Course content
The course introduces the theory and practice of comics analysis and comics production. These are applied and developed with a focus on documentary comics.
The course is divided into three parts:
1\. Introduction to visual narrative structure, and to documentary comics.
2\. In-depth study of Comics cultures and their implications for comics journalism/documentary.
3\. Individual documentary project that must contain pictorial sequential storytelling (topic chosen in dialogue with supervisor) and a written report, connecting the project to comics theory and cultural theory.
Entry requirements and selection
Entry requirements
The equivalent to English 6/English level 2 in Swedish upper secondary school and 30 higher education credits.
Selection
34% Upper Secondary Grades - 34% Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (SweSAT) - 32% University Credits
Course literature
Current literature list is available in the syllabus for the course
Course evaluation
Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).
