UISC 155D - Fact and Fiction: Culture Clashes in Literature and Film

3 credit(s) High Impact Practice: Diversity
This course will ask students to explore how stories and conflicts between different cultures have been depicted in literary works and films. We will consider how these adaptations blend fact and fiction to interpret, adapt, and reimagine the past for new audiences, and we will think about what is gained or lost in these representations. Students will examine how films and literature represent the daily life, worldview, and identity of characters living in different times and places, how they negotiate conflicting sets of values and cultural identities, and how they translate the broad canvas of human experience into 2 stories about individual protagonists. We will also compare primary sources relating to key events with the stories told about these events for modern audiences.

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