SFE21317 Film: adaptation and intertextuality (Autumn 2024)
Facts about the course
- ECTS Credits:
- 10
- Responsible faculty:
- Faculty of Teacher Education and Languages
- Campus:
- Online
- Course Leader:
- Britt Wenche Svenhard
- Teaching language:
- English
- Duration:
- ½ year
Table of contents
The course is affiliated to the following study programme
Mandatory course in the English Extension Programme.
One of two mandatory courses in the Bachelor's Programme in Languages, English specialization.
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Teaching semester
English Extension Programme: 1st semester (autumn)
Bachelor's Programme in Languages, English specialization: 5th semester (autumn)
Content
The student's learning outcomes on passing the course
Knowledge
The student has
- knowledge of film theory, adaptation theory, and different intertextual strategies
- knowledge of how film adaptations can contribute to a reworking of classical texts
- insight into how adaptations can be classified and placed within a broader intertextual context
Skills
The student is capable of
- applying concepts and theory covered in the course in his or her own comparative analyses of texts
- discussing how specific types of film adaptations problematise attitudes towards topics such as gender, ethnicity, class, history and identity
- selecting relevant academic literature to conduct an oral presentation on a personally chosen film adaptation
General competence
The student has
- insight into the various storytelling methods and how film in particular continues or changes narrative traditions and reworks classic texts
- knowledge of the expressive forms of literature and film in various cultural and historical contexts
- improved his or her oral proficiency in the English language and in multimodal presentation methods
Teaching and learning methods
Workload
Coursework requirements - conditions for taking the exam
The student must give an oral presentation based on a self-selected film adaptation of a classic text chosen by the student. In this presentation, the student will use analytical tools and theory learned in the course to elucidate aspects of both the original work and the adaptation. The presentation must be multimodal in accordance with specified criteria. A written bibliography of sources must be submitted.
Required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam.
Exam
Individual written home exam, 5 hours.
All aids are allowed, but it is not permitted to communicate with others about the question paper, or to work on an answer together.
Grading scale: A-F.
Examiners
Course evaluation
Feedback from our students is vital in order for us to be able to offer the best possible courses and study programmes. The following forms of evaluation are used for this course:
- mid-term evaluation
- continuous/final evaluation
The results are considered by:
- lecturer groups
- the Head of Studies
- the local programme committee