2023 Summer Session D 6 weeks, July 3 - August 11

ENGLISH 176 002 - LEC 002

Literature and Popular Culture

Fantasy from Tolkien to Game of Thrones

Max Stevenson

Jul 03, 2023 - Aug 11, 2023

Tu, We, Th

02:00 pm - 04:29 pm

Social Sciences Building 60

Class #:15284

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through English

How to apply

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 37

Enrolled: 23

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 60

Waitlist Max: 10

Open Reserved Seats:

37 reserved for Students Not in the Pre-Collegiate Program

5 to 7.5 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 22.5 hours of outside work hours per week, and 2.5 to 0 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

Course Catalog Description

Topics will vary from semester to semester.

Class Description

Fantasy literature, film, and television continually look to the Middle Ages (or, more to the point, to our idea of the Middle Ages) when constructing epic narratives set in fantastic worlds. In the course we’ll ask what it is about the medieval that writers of fantasy find so useful, as well as consider what aspects of the medieval (especially race, gender, and sexuality) their accounts ignore. We’ll read works by Tolkien, Jemisin, Delany, Martin, and Ishiguro, as well as view film and television adaptations.