THEA 237 - Reimagining Classics

This course explores the ways in which classic texts from antiquity to the mid-twentieth century are reimagined, reworked, and retold. We will focus on reimaginings that highlight minoritarian perspectives and explore crossings of genre, medium, time, and culture. We will deconstruct the canon, as well as question our contemporary investment in these texts. What connects us to these stories? Why retell them? How can we make the past speak to and about the present?

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group I
Instructional Method: Conference
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Not offered: 2024-25
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Understand how arguments can be made, visions presented, or feelings or ideas conveyed through language or other modes of expression (symbols, movement, images, sounds, etc.).
Analyze and interpret texts, whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts.
Evaluate arguments made in or about texts (whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts).