FYS 164 Adaptation (in the Humanities)
Part of a being a human being is adapting, transposing and renovating narratives and ideas into new formats. How do we understand this human process in the twenty-first century? This course is dedicated to the study of adaptations (literary, filmic, musical, and plastic) in the Spanish-speaking world, with a special focus on the topic of memory. In this course we will rid ourselves of hierarchies and analyze each work (and genre) as a text with its own language and with its own historical, social, and cultural context. By the end of the course students will be able to analyze and criticize a variety of texts and adaptations from a variety of cultural perspectives and backgrounds and employ a series of concepts, terms, and ideas to the universal human practice of adaptation and create their own "adaptations."
Instructor
Stafford