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LITTRANS 259

ADVENTURE IN LITERATURE AND FILM

3 credits.

How do we define adventure? Who gets to experience it and on what terms? What role has it played in ancient and modern cultures? What do its ever-changing definitions, heroes, and genres tell us about our evolving values? Address these and similar questions on our intellectual journey through some of the most iconic adventures in Western cultural tradition, from Homer's The Odyssey to Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark, and beyond.

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Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Literature Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. identify the conventions of adventure narratives across different periods, traditions, and genres Audience: Undergraduate 2. apply basic methods of literary, cinematic, and cultural analysis to close readings of cultural texts, be they epics, romances, novels, or films Audience: Undergraduate 3. develop, compare, and effectively express ideas about cultural texts and their underlying semantic structures Audience: Undergraduate 4. discuss how adventure tropes evolve to reflect and often mediate social and cultural changes Audience: Undergraduate 5. explain the function of adventure as a social construct, both historically and in the context of today’s globalized world. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. identify the conventions of adventure narratives across different periods, traditions, and genres Audience: Undergraduate 2. apply basic methods of literary, cinematic, and cultural analysis to close readings of cultural texts, be they epics, romances, novels, or films Audience: Undergraduate 3. develop, compare, and effectively express ideas about cultural texts and their underlying semantic structures Audience: Undergraduate 4. discuss how adventure tropes evolve to reflect and often mediate social and cultural changes Audience: Undergraduate 5. explain the function of adventure as a social construct, both historically and in the context of today’s globalized world. Audience: Undergraduate

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