This certificate will provide students an understanding of the craft and literature
of graphic narrative, also known as sequential art, comics, and cartooning. This area
of study builds students’ skills in creative writing, drawing techniques and materials,
and knowledge of graphic narrative literature, history, and critical/theoretical approaches.
This certificate benefits students with a variety of professional interests, including
but not limited to creative writing, literature and scholarship, publication and editing,
illustration, animation, film-making, and/or English education. Students will take
courses both in the Department of English and the Department of Art and Design to
complete this certificate.