Landing page for where I’ll post my Fall 2025 syllabi. New semester – new class – new syllabi! For the first time, I decided to make a mini-comic as a syllabus. It’s the Liberal Studies capstone (not a comics class) and I made the focus around education and exploring how we own our own learning. It also includes a brief statement about Ai in the classroom (and creative work more generally). All are available here as PDFs (and I’ll be updating this as I get prepped for class next few days…). All my syllabi, resources for classes, examples, and such live on my site here. – Nick

Here is the above Ai statement as a PDF – download and use and share (with credit) as you wish. Appreciate hearing how it goes over. – N

[There was a typo in one of the pages in my original post, I’ve corrected and replaced all the files with the error. If you downloaded any of it before, you may want to do again for the corrected version. – N]

Download the minicomic here as a foldable with the back info page, here as just the front in sequence in one sheet (not able to be made into a booklet), and as the 8-individual pages here. And if you want the whole syllabus, with the text version too – that’s available here. Updating more as I can… – N

Oh, if you’ve never folded a mini-comic before, I gave instruction for it on the only other mini-comic I made – see that here. And for resources on making mini-comics, all on my site here.

This is the complete text for alt-text for the mini-comic (I need to format this with page descriptions when I can, but for now, it’s simply the words…)

Text of comic:

We may have come to expect teaching to be explanations delivered from on high. But, students aren’t empty receivers waiting to be filled with instructions… Instead, consider teaching as arming you with tools for navigation, offering approaches and examples – ways to look at things – guidance – to help you go yourself, on your own two feet.

Nothing can do this for you – for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it’s all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create – this is learning. As a teacher, I want to provide spaces for you to try things, establish structures to play in, and constraints to propel your explorations in unexpected directions, all so you find your own way.

You will ask questions, follow where your curiosity leads, and, by connecting ideas across disciplines and modalities, you will make things! Even as each of you explores on your own, we do so in community – to raise everyone up through our shared learning. For democracy to thrive, we need diverse perspectives from curious, critical, creative, informed thinkers, who actively participate in and contribute to our public discourse – that means you!

Here are the PDF syllabi for my Making Comics intro course, and Comics & Culture – intro to comics studies (w/making!).