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ENG 438

Film Adaptation

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelUpper Division
Standard

Overview

Description

This course focuses on the theories and practices of adapting literature for film. Students will read short stories, novels, and plays that have been made into films and study the range of approaches filmmakers take to adapting such literature for the screen.

Requirements

Prerequisites

ENG 102
Original catalog text

Prerequisites

Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

Units

Lecture3

Learning Outcomes

  • write well-supported and coherent analyses of individual literary works in relation to films adapted from them.
  • articulate the relationship between literature and film as distinct media.
  • compose a screenplay that adapts of a portion of a literary work.