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Class number:
3505
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Title: Acts of Adaptation |
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Department: First Year Sem & Colloq |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: Yes |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 14 |
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Available seats: 1 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 21, 2022 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM, AAC - 231 |
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Instructor(s): Incampo, Theresa |
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Prerequisite(s): Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class. |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets FirstYr Seminar Requirement |
Course Description:
Adaptation, the act of translating and transforming a story from one medium into another, is the basis for many of our most popular entertainment works. Hollywood has long looked to the theatre for inspiration and adapted dramatic texts for the silver screen. And blockbuster Broadway musicals like Wicked, Hamilton, and SpongeBob SquarePants are drawn from existing literature and moving imagery. What are the constraints, complications, and advantages we encounter when converting oral, historical, and fictional narratives into something new? This course invites students to take up the act of adaptation as a creative practice while engaging foundational texts about this process. We will also analyze case studies of stories that have "crossed over" to address questions about an adaptation's genre, conventions, and cultural specificity. |