SPE 3490 - Cinema as Communication

Institution:

Metropolitan State University of Denver

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Description:

3 (2 + 2) Prerequisite: SPE 2400 or ENG 2860; or Permission of instructor Students in this course will learn to critique how films communicate to a mass audience, including considerations such as rhetoric, ideology, performance, and spectatorship. Assigned work will include reading in communication theory as well as writing an essay that critiques a particular film as an instance of communication art or science, or both. Class time includes lab hours during which various films will be screened.

Credits:

5.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.msudenver.edu/

Phone Number:

(303) 556-3058

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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