QUIRKY CURRICULUM Professor’s class gets graphic From Red and Black (University of Georgia): QUIRKY CURRICULUM: Professor�s class gets graphicChris Pizzino has a cure for American culture � more comics. University professor Chris Pizzino teaches two classes extolling the virtues of the graphic novel and science fiction. MICHAEL BARONE/Staff �The anti-comics prejudice is out there,� said Pizzino, assistant professor in the University English department. �You pick it up as you go, even if you were never told it in no uncertain terms. It�s in our cultural DNA and we�re having to do some intellectual gene therapy to change how people think about comics. So that�s what I want the comics class to do.� Pizzino, who has taught a recurring class on graphic novels in past semesters and is now teaching a class on science fiction, said he developed an interest in studying the subjects when he realized their potential for scholarly inquiry. �Such choices don�t always arise,� he said. �I�m actuall...