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Fun Summer 2008 Film Course
ULIB493: Film and Media Literacy
CRN: TBA
An Online and in the Library Course
- This course runs the full summer term, but you may arrange to complete it early
Study Film Genres and Criticism
- Watch DVDs in the Downtown Campus Library
- Learn film vocabulary and criticism
- Learn to use film databases
- Become an informed media consumer
Study:
- Gangster movies and Italian American Stereotypes (Including the Godfather movies)
- Blaxploitation from the 1970s including Shaft (1971)
- Westerns and the women in High Noon (1952)
- Slasher movies from Psycho (1960) to Scream (1996)
- The films of Quentin Tarantino Reservoir Dogs (1992) to Death Proof (2007)
- Films adapted from Graphic Novels like 300 (2007) and V for Vendetta (2005)
- Dark Comedy
- Foreign Films
About the Course:
- This is an online eCampus course. The class does not meet in person.
- You will can watch films in the Downtown Campus Library in private multimedia viewing rooms on 42" plasma screens or on multimedia computers with headphones.
- You will watch a total of 16 films.
- You will do written "reflection" assignments that you will post to a group discussion board.
- You will write a critical response to your classmates' reflections and receive critiques of your work.
- There are database assignments where you research film information and find the answers to questions online.
- You will be responsible for the readings that accompany the films.
- There will be online "lectures" for each of the main genres we will study.
- There will be a brief online quiz for almost every learning module.
- You will choose two of the eight genres. You will then watch five additional films in those genres and take brief quizzes on each of them.
- Finally, you will choose from a list of selected films from your chosen genres and write one film critique using the skills and vocabulary you have practiced in the course.
Questions? Email the Instructors:
beth.toren@mail.wvu.edu or charles.burkart@mail.wvu.edu