4 Stages to Bringing Comics Into Your College Courses
Dr. Raylene Gomez Hernandez developed a course structure you can replicate when using comics and manga as course materials, and/or as the subject of your course at the collegiate level.
Dr. Raylene Gomez Hernandez developed a course structure you can replicate when using comics and manga as course materials, and/or as the subject of your course at the collegiate level.
Comics and manga are an expansive medium, though, and no one can be an expert in every genre and age level — so we re-assembled our comics librarian dream team to share their expertise.
How can you bring a comics collection to your academic library and align it to curriculum development and planning of your academic programs? Pamela Jackson’s method includes three replicable steps.
Thanks to his own appreciation for the medium, George Purdu set out to establish a school-wide reading program that included comics across the elementary, middle, and high schools.
By leaning into comics and manga, Tabrizia was able to develop replicable programs that any librarian can use to engage readers.
Danielle defined eight goals that would serve to help inform teachers and administrators about why graphic novels were worth implementing through a school-wide reading program.