Section Info: FMT-330AD-01

Course Title: Advanced Courses in History and Theory: 'Adaptation: A Study in Form'
Start Date: 09/03/2025 End Date: 12/16/2025
Term: Fall Semester 2025
Description: The Oxford English Dictionary defines "adaptation" as "the bringing of two things together so as to effect a change in the nature of the objects." Rather than studying adaptation as a project that attempts to reproduce an original work in another medium, our course considers the complex relationship between narratives and their retellings and revisions. In particular, we will focus on how such retellings permanently alter their so-called "source" material and how each incarnation of a given narrative offers us insight into and commentary upon a particular historical moment and its unique political and ideological challenges. We will also consider the ways in which literary and visual representations differ in their communicative and affective mechanisms, and challenge where we draw the line between "art," "history," and "entertainment."
Distribution(s): I - Humanities , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     Credits:4.00    

Faculty         Phone         Email address        
Amy Rodgers   413-538-3038   arodgers@mtholyoke.edu  

Meeting Dates         Method         Meeting days         Meeting times         Building name         Room     Frequency    
09/03/2025 - 12/16/2025   Seminar   Wednesday   01:30PM - 04:20PM   TBA   TBA   Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses        
Prereq: 8 credits in English or in Film Media Theater. Take previously   Required  

Comments        
Additional Comments        
Course Tags        
FMT0004   FMT-CR: Critical Studies   This course has been approved to count towards the Film, Media, Theater major in the Critical Studies area.  

Cross-listed Sections        
FMT-330AD-01 Adaptation: A Study in Form  
ENGL-367AD-01 Adaptation: A Study in Form  

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted     Capacity: 18     Enrollment: 16     Available: 0     Waitlist: 8
Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
To be determined.                    

Additional Book Comments        
This is NOT the complete book list for this class.