Adaptations Workshop (Master Degree)

De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' The MA offers a uniquely interdisciplinary approach and addresses the process of exchange between literature and the moving image in the production of adaptations. Taught modules include Adaptations Theory, Classic Adaptations, Popular Forms and Shakespeare on Screen, all of which cover key debates in narrative theory and issues such as ideology, fidelity, the idea of history and place, audience, authorship, the economics of adaptation, heritage, novelisation, nostalgia, radical adaptation, sequels and remakes. These embrace the literary and the popular, the cinematic and the televisual as well as exploring animation, comic book narration and video games.

Adaptations Theory includes crucial research skills components, especially designed to help you make the transition from undergraduate to postgraduate study, as well as ensuring that you are prepared for your dissertation. In addition the course sets out the field of adaptations studies, giving an intensive introduction to its dominant theoretical positions and charting the most recent developments in the field. In all taught modules texts are chosen to promote debates and encourage you to challenge existing assumptions which underpin the development of Adaptations as an area of study.

You will also write a dissertation (of 15,000-20,000 words) on a subject chosen in consultation with a tutor, which can include a creative component, such as a screenplay. This allows the development of personal research interests, offering the opportunity for engaging in original research with expert one-to-one tuition.

Teaching/assessment

Each module will be taught over a term, with one, two-hour workshop per week. This means that full-time students, who take two modules per term, will have a total of four hours classroom time per week. Part-time students, who take one module per term will have a total of two hours classroom time per week. In addition staff will be available for individual tutorials via an appointments system.

There will be a variety of teaching methods including mini lectures, classroom discussion, short screenings, practical sessions with computers and presentations, with the emphasis always on your active participation in learning. You are expected to prepare for classes, which in this case may include viewing and reading set texts, sourcing relevant critical material and preparing for seminar tasks in consultation with the tutor. Module handbooks give clear information about the amount and range of work expected, and tutors are on hand to give advice about managing the workload, offer guidance about the preparation of assessed work, or to discuss your progress.

Taught courses are usually assessed by a workshop presentation and a 5000 word essay, handed in at the end of the teaching period. Adaptations Theory may also include formative non-assessed assignments designed to help you gauge your progress early on in the course.

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Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

Phone:+44 (0)116 255 1551

School Address:

De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester
LE1 9BH
UK


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