Dr. Lisa K. Perdigao
Department of Humanities
and
Communication
626 Crawford
phone:
321-674-8370
email: lperdiga@fit.edu
Summer 2013 Course
HUM
2085: Film and Television Adaptations
Maria Tatar,
“Why Fairy Tales Matter”
Day 1—Peter Pan
and Fairy Tales
Summer 2013 Lecture
Lifelong
Scholar Society
Frontierland, Fantasyland, and Tomorrowland:
Imagineering Florida Culture
Spring 2013 Courses
HUM
2213: British and American Literature II
Day
1—World War I and the Literary Imagination
Day
2—Larking and Plunging: Mrs. Dalloway
Day 4—Disturbing
the Universe: Eliot
Day 5—Notes on
Drowning: Eliot and Auden
Day 6—On the Edge
of the Waste Land: The Great Gatsby
Day
7—Love, Loss, Nostalgia, and Regret: American Modernists
Day 8—Return of
the Repressed: Beloved
Day 9—Out of the
Ash: Sylvia Plath
Day
10—Beyond All Myths: The Hours
Day
11—Emerging from the Wreck: Adrienne Rich
Day 12—Everything now is measured by after: Netherland
Day
13—Measuring Time: The Sense of an Ending
Day
14—Reconceiving Identity: Never Let Me Go
Day
15—Sensing Endings and Letting Go
Ernest
Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”
Reading
schedule—Mrs. Dalloway
Reading
schedule—The Great Gatsby
Reading
schedule—The Sense of an Ending
Reading
Schedule—Never Let Me Go
HUM
2052: Civilization II
Day 8—Candide
Day 9—The Woman Question
Day
11—Frankenstein and Romanticism
Day
13—Revolutionary Ideologies
Day 16—Modernization,
Modernity, and Modernisms
Day 17—Heart of
Darkness
Day 18—Freud, Valery,
Spengler
Day 19—Six Characters
in Search of an Author
Day 22—More
Slaughterhouse-Five
HUM
3085: Television and Popular Culture
Day
4—Making and Unmaking Meaning: Modern Family
Day
6—Identity Politics and TV
Day
7—Mainstream and Margin: The Glee Project
Day
8—Dungeons, Dragons, and Cinematography
Day
9—Forensic Television: The Case of CSI
Day
10—Crashing: The X-Files and Roswell
Day
11—Welcome to the Hellmouth: Postmodernism and Buffy
Day
12—I’ll Never Forget: The Tie that Binds Buffy and
Angel
Day 13—Everything. Everyone. Everywhere. Ends.: Six Feet Under
Day
14—Turtles All the Way Down: Awake
Day
15—All Magic Comes with a Price: Once Upon a Time
Day
16: A Shiny New World: The Firefly/Serenityverse
Response
3: Modern Family and Community
Response
4: Gender and Evolving Forms
Response
5: Community, CSI, and The X-Files
Response
6: Roswell and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Response
7: Angel and Six Feet Under
Response
8: Awake and Once Upon a Time
Response
9: Choose Your Own Adventure
Michael Newman, “From Beats to Arcs: Toward a Poetics of Television Narrative” Stacey Abbott, “‘Can’t Stop the Signal’: The Resurrection/Regeneration of Serenity” Final Exam Review