9SAC03 · 7.5 credits · Basic level (G1N) · Inget huvudområde
LiU Summer Academy: Superman, Daisy Duck and Tintin: reading and learning in the world of comics
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SRE1 · 18 Aug 2025 · 20 students
100%
passed the regular sittings, all sittings over the last 5 years
SRE1 · 39 students
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Harder than 0% of courses at basic level
Compared with 874 courses at the same level, ordinary exams over the last three academic years. 39 students.
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SRE1 Written exam
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100% passed · 39 students
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Later rounds
96% passed · 25 students
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- Pass a later round: 96% (25 students), compared with 100% (39 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get B or A: 53% (64 students)
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OBL1 Seminar
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Main rounds
100% passed · 42 students
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Later rounds
100% passed · 19 students
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OBL2 Seminar
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100% passed · 42 students
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Later rounds
100% passed · 19 students
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- Pass a later round: 100% (19 students), compared with 100% (42 students) on the ordinary exam
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About the course
Aim
After completion of the course, students will be able to
- account for the historical development of the comics medium in relation to a cultural and social context
- analyse comics intertextually with literary or cultural analytical tools
- describe and discuss various multimodal functions of the comics medium
- account for a few didactic methods connected to comics.
Content
The course studies comics from an aesthetic, as well as political and cultural, perspective, and the role of comics in society both historically and in present day. Within this framework the course sheds light on different forms of comics – strips, graphic novels, comics – and various genres (fiction, non-fiction, autobiographical, adventure etc.). The student is introduced to the historical and physical development of comics and encounters different type of stories from English-American, Belgo-French, Japanese, and Swedish comics tradition. The course also has a didactic focus that offers an in-depth exploration of the potential of comics as educational tools.
- Examiner
- Robert Aman
- Main field of study
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