STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 I.Demonstrate the conceptual ability to develop and refine compelling original stories.

 II. Investigate various visual and conceptual techniques used for communicating narrative content.

 III. Verbally articulate creative choices regarding narrative development and visual design.

 IV. Create well-designed comic characters, panels and pages based on the elements and principles of design.

 V. Explore various traditional, digital and hybrid illustration techniques.

 VI. Participate verbally in critiques of other students¿ work while analyzing narrative concepts and visual designs

 TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 I. Storytelling terminology

 II. Digital tools

 A. Software

 B. Scanners

 C. Pen tablets

 III. Time and space in narrative

 IV. Fiction vs. non-fiction

 V. Traditional narrative

 A. Narrative arc

 VI. Experimental narrative

 A. Interactivity

 B. Collaboration