Course Description:

In college humanities seminars, students will focus on written texts, but also engage with other cultural phenomena such as movies, music, plays, and popular TV shows. Take the opportunity this summer to get a head start and learn how to analyze cultural productions beyond the basic novel!

In this course, we will explore plays written by famous playwrights and the movies they inspired. When we read Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, what does it say about its historical setting, but also the 1950s Red Scare? What does its 1996 filmic adaption tell us about America then and now? How might we adapt that for today’s audience?

At the end of this course, students will have gained analytical and theoretical knowledge in the field of cultural studies, watched, read, and critically evaluated original plays and their adaptations, and presented a creative project of their own.