Overview
Key facts
Malmö University's Digital Comics course aims to give basic theoretical and practical knowledge of digital comics and their cultural and medial contexts. During the course, the students will study, analyse and comment the contemporary field of digital comics. In addition to this, they will create and publish digital comics of their own and read, evaluate and comment digital comics published by fellow students. Results and reflections will be published on open web forums, aimed at digital comics, and comics in general. Digital comics is a half time distance-study course. Access to a computer with Internet connection is required. The course is taught in English.
Programme Structure
- The course is divided into two modules:
- Module I contains short introductions to the basics of digital comics, forms of narration, the formats of digital comics and related artistic practice. It also looks at strategies for developing and marketing digital comics, and at ethical and legal aspects. This module addresses practical and theoretical issues: reflective papers as well as short comics are to be produced for the assignments applying and reflecting on these areas. Students will experiment with tools, styles, and construction of sequences to produce comic strips and visual material. This module develops the practical skills of visual narrating, layout of individual images and picture sequences, digitalisation, production, distribution andmarketing. Results are presented online.
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 5 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
- Apply before
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Language
Credits
Delivered
Disciplines
Visual Arts Creative Writing Liberal ArtsWhat students do after studying
Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- General entry requirements + English 6
Tuition Fee
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International
64000 SEK/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 64000 SEK for the full programme during 5 months. -
EU/EEA
FreeTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 0 SEK for the full programme during 5 months.
- Swedish citizens, as well as citizens of other EU/EEA countries or Switzerland, are not required to pay application and tuition fees.