DISC322-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Adaptation

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

This course examines the challenges and complexities of adapting literary texts (novels, short stories, plays, comics, anime, fairy tales, myths and legends) and historical events (biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, reportage) to the screen. In the process, students will reflect upon the differences between working in words and images, in writing for a verbal or visual-based medium. They will create their own adaptation of a selected text.

Prerequisites

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 13:00 - 14:00 Otakaro 146 L1 Lecture Theatre
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Workshop A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 14:00 - 16:00 Otakaro 132
24 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun

Contact Person

John Chrisstoffels

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $998.00

International fee $4,850.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Humanities .

All DISC322 Occurrences

  • DISC322-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025