This course investigates how plays and films have portrayed our region’s history. The course will include visits to a variety of nearby locations, followed by an examination of how actual events have been converted into dramatic narratives. Students will consider how plays and films can distort history, and at the mythology of the Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee and the South as a whole. Members of the class will also create short performance pieces as a way of wrestling with these questions. Open only to new first-year students.