Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- OT-ANG17-310/u
- Title
- Modern English and American Literature and Culture: America in the Twenties: film adaptations of The Great Gatsby
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- Published semester
- 2026/27/1
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- The course is designed to familiarise students with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s popular short novel The Great Gatsby and its four film adaptations
- Course content
- Close reading of the novel as well as analyses of film adaptations and if posssible, stage productions
- Assessment method
- - regular attendance; set texts (as listed in weekly syllabus) read in full and in English for the appropriate seminars; copies of set texts in English brought in for the appropriate seminars; one presentation; end-term test (for the test read at least 3 articles as listed in weekly syllabus); active in-class participation in discussions as well as lively, interactive presentation of topics using visuals are encouraged.
- Bibliography
- - F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, four film adaptations; articles (as listed in weekly syllabus)