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<TITLE>Planning on seeing Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey this December?</TITLE>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Why not take a winter mini-meseter course where you will be studying the film with a group of like-minded students?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000">The first class (probably anywhere) taught on Jackson's first Hobbit film:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000">ENG 497.01W: The First Hobbit Film</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Winter 2013 Mini-Mester</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000">English 497</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> is the course designation for Literature and Languages undergraduate special topics courses. The number exists to provide faculty and students the chance to explore special topics not part of the regular curriculum. English 497 may be taken more than once for credit, as long as the topic changes. </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us">The topic for this winter mini-mester class is<I> The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey</I> (2012). The class will focus on the film as the primary text (previous knowledge of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel is not required!), with reading and writing assignments designed to teach students how to understand and apply four critical paradigms of film adaptation. </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us">Prerequisites: Eng 1302 and sophomore standing. </SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR ALIGN=CENTER><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B>Required Texts</B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I> Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's</I> The Lord of the Rings<I> Film</I> Trilogy. Edited by Janice M. Bogstad and Philip E. Kaveny. Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-4636-0. McFarland.</SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us">NOTE: While an essay that I co-wrote with Dr. Judy Ann Ford, History, is in this anthology, neither she nor I will receive any money from the sales of this anthology. Royalties go to the two editors, not to the eighteen contributors. </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us">"<I>The Accidental Tourist</I> On Page and on Screen; Interrogating Normative Theories About Film Adaptation," Karen Kline.<I> Literature Film Quarterly</I> 24.1 (1996): 70-81.</SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us">NOTE: This academic article is available in our university's full-text database; you will not be buying a copy. </SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000">The assignments will consist of:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">1. Viewing THE HOBBIT in the theatres at least three times between December 13 and December 22. There will be online discussion (informal writing assignments) associated with all three viewings; there will be assigned film terminology and adaptation questions for two viewings.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">2. Posting in the online discussions (which will be a major part of the class grade because that's the way to get writing into a mini-mester); and,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000">3. Writing a 2-page proposal for a ten-page film adaptation/analysis paper. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000">We will also do a group review/discussion of the film for posting in my Tolkien Studies blog.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><BR>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#1F497D" FACE="Calibri">Professor of Literature and Languages</FONT></SPAN></P>
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