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Undergraduate Catalog 2026-2027 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2026-2027

CIN 203 Film and Literature

Credits: (3)
This course examines the mutually informing relationship between literature and film. Students will engage in reading, discussion, and written analysis of literature as well as viewing, discussion, and written analysis of film. Particular attention will be paid to transmutation across media to develop a comparative analysis of the art forms that recognizes their distinct formal dimensions as well as the interconnections between their aesthetic, economic, historical, socio-political, cultural, and technological contexts. Prerequisite(s): ENG 104 .

SUNY Gen Ed Area(s): Humanities
Designation(s): Liberal Arts

Learning Outcomes
  1. Make and defend judgments about interconnection of film and literature.
  2. Critically analyze the relationship between cinematic and literary texts in writing.
  3. Identify and use literary and cinematic terms and theory appropriately in textual analysis.
  4. Explain the connections between literary and cinematic texts and the aesthetic, theoretical, social, political, and cultural contexts in which they were produced.