ENGL2301 — The Graphic Novel: Reviews & Ratings

ENGL2301 (The Graphic Novel) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.

Explores the word-and-image medium of comics as a narrative form. Focuses on the contemporary phenomenon of the so-called graphic novel. Covers the preoccupations of today’s graphic novels and how their storytelling works. Includes some work in translation, but the course largely concentrates on the American tradition, focusing on fiction, memoir, and nonfiction reporting and adaptation. Offers students an opportunity to learn practices of reading—and making—comics. Emphasizes the formal language, or grammar, of the comics genre in order to interpret its narrative procedure and possibilities.

Last taught

Fall 2025

Credits

4 Hours

Prerequisites

ENGL 1102 with a minimum grade of C or ENGL 1111 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1102 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1111 with a minimum grade of C or WRIT 201M with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1113 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1114 with a minimum grade of C

NUpath

Creative Express/Innov, Interpreting Culture

Data updated October 2026.

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