Academic Team:

Dawn Marlan (damarlan@uoregon.edu) 
First-Year Experience Seminar Instructor

Mira Coles (miracoles@uoregon.edu)
FIG Assistant

9 credits

UGST 109 First-Year Experience Seminar - 1 credit
LIL 255: W 4 - 5:20 PM
CRN: 15039

COLT 232 Literature and Film: Adaptation - 4 credits
Lecture
LIL 211: TR 12 - 1:50 PM
CRN: 11315
Discussion
CON 330: F 10 - 10:50 AM
CRN: 11317

CINE 266 History of Motion Picture II - 4 credits
Lecture
PLC 180: T 2 - 4:50 PM, R 2 - 2:50 PM
CRN: 15879
Discussion
MCK 214: F 12 - 12:50 PM
CRN: 16449

About the FIG:

This FIG is for bookworms and cinephiles, students who take pleasure in literature and film, in narrative, language, and images. Exploring modes of storytelling across media, we will examine formal elements of film and fiction and methods of literary and cinematic analysis. While CINE 266 has a largely historical approach focused on global cinematic movements, COLT 232 will take a theoretical approach to the question of adaptation, while tracing the way in which filmic retellings of literary works reflect shifting ideas about identity, sexuality, and power as stories travel through time and from one cultural context to another. Delving into historical material that will feel atmospherically distant yet surprisingly, strangely contemporary, we will see how the present is inspired by, builds upon, and converses with the past, in an effort to preserve, modify, or radically rethink the stories we inherit. A final project in COLT 232 will be to adapt one of these stories to reflect our own moment. 

COLT 232 Literature and Film: Adaptations - CoreEd or major satisfying course

Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of literature and film. Draws on perspectives from cinema studies, media aesthetics, and related fields.

CINE 266 History of Motion Picture II - CoreEd or major satisfying course

Studies the technological, artistic, and cultural histories of motion pictures in various national contexts, from the transition to sound through the early 1960s.