Summer classes to feature The Hunger Games and Tolkien works
April 13, 2016
DEFIANCE, Ohio – Dive into the fantasy world of your choice and expand your mind with thought-provoking classes on the Defiance College campus this summer.
Go on an adventure with “Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings” during the first summer session from May 16 – June 24. Topics to be discussed include the nature of fantasy and science fiction, as well as the nature of power and the importance of disability to Tolkien’s novel.
Classes for “Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings” will run on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6 p.m. – 8:45 p.m. The class name is EN 295. Required texts include all three books in The Lord of the Rings series by J. R. R. Tolkien and Peter Jackson’s filmed version of The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
“The Hunger Games, from Text to Film” will be offered the second summer session from June 27 – August 5. This course centralizes on dystopian themes found in all of the required texts for the course. Other topics may include freedom, stereotypes and roles of gender, the nature of social control, and how theatrical performances can alter reality.
Classes for “The Hunger Games, from Text to Film” will run on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. The class name is EN 295. Required texts include The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, the film adaptations, George Orwell’s 1984, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.
Both courses will be taught by Dr. Todd A. Comer on the DC campus. Dr. Comer enjoys applying philosophy to text and media. He engages his students with ideas that invite them to think of the world around them from new perspectives.
His field of interests include postcolonial and postmodern culture and theory, disability studies, ecocriticism, composition theory, 20th and 21st century American and British literature, radical politics, comics, and film. Dr. Comer has authored multiple publications with a variety of themes and currently serves on the editorial board for IUP’s Studies in the Humanities.
A variety of summer courses will be offered from May 16 through August 5, some at the DC campus and others offered online. Visit the college website to see all class offerings and contact the registrar to sign up at (419)783-2375 or registrar@defiance.edu.
Defiance College, chartered in 1850, is an independent, liberal arts institution in Northwest Ohio offering more than 40 undergraduate programs of study as well as graduate programs in education and business. Defiance College has received national recognition for its educational experience of service and engagement. The college website is www.defiance.edu.
