Graphic Novel

Code:

NG01

Acronym:

NG

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Fine Arts

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Desenho
Course/CS Responsible:	Drawing

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LD	19	Plano de estudos de LD_publicaçao em DR de 7 de junho de 2022	3	-	6	45	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

To know relevant works from the history of comics, precursors of the contemporary graphic novel;

Understand the emergence of the graphic novel as a genre, recognizing its expressive, narrative and communicative potentialities;

Recognize the specific vocabulary of comics, and its graphic and literary potential;

Develop strategies leading to the conceptual and technical mastery of the Graphic Novel;

Mobilize graphic and linguistic skills in the qualification of the narrative experience;

Optimize the use of multimodal writing as an instrument of expression, communication and invention to aid and complement the graphic language;

Know different design methodology in the exploration of analog and digital methods and processes of drawing and graphic ideation;

Develop methodologies and processes of narrative creation (writing, contextual documentation, planning, graphic development), identifying problems and speeding up solutions.

Learning outcomes and competences

Graphic Novel as a literary genre/comics sub-genre and the historical and cultural context from its origins to the present.

The vocabulary of comics; the spatio-topic system: vignette, strip, page, grid, margin, speech bubble, page composition; the representation of space and time in comics: mise-en-page and reading rhythms; analogies between the language of cinema and composition in comics (scale, format, tension).

Iconic-verbal discourse: transitions and montage; rhetorical resources; transtextuality; Functions and relationships between text and image (redundancy, consonance and dissonance); transtextuality.

Gender: the notebook as an instrument and as a literary genre; Storytelling, life stories, biography, autobiography, autofiction; fiction and non-fiction.

Porjectual methodology: documentation and contextual research; graphic reportage and the experience of place; script and storyboard; Drawing reportage; graphic resources; montage.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Mandatory literature

Abel, J., MADDEN, M. ; Drawing words and writing pictures, First Second.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Masterclasses based on demonstrations and explanation of concepts;

Exemplification, using reference works and authors;

Searching, organizing data in the archive and applying information;

Field work in gathering information through graphic, photographic and videographic records;

Study visits and contact with authors/professionals;

Laboratory, exploratory and experimental practice in questioning and testing hypotheses;

Design practice in the strategic development of means to solve problems;

Tutorial guidance and feed-back of students' work;

Distributed assessment.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	5,00
Trabalho laboratorial	20,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	75,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	40,00
Frequência das aulas	50,00
Trabalho laboratorial	72,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Presentation of a portfolio demonstrating learning outcomes.
Presentation of an exploratory notebook of own research.
Participation in lectures and seminars.
Minimum attendance of 75% of classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

Presentation of a portfolio demonstrating learning outcomes (70%).

Presentation of an exploratory notebook of your own observations and research (25%).

Participation in lectures and seminars (5%).

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

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Classification improvement

Through attendance in the following academic year, in accordance with the student assessment regulations for the first and second cycles of the FBAUP.