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3.00 Credits
This course is designed for students to develop a greater comprehension of the historical evolution of cinematic art. Though the course focuses primarily on cinema in the United States, some important and representative films from other countries will be studied. In addition, emphasis will be given to films that represent the development of film as an industry and how this corresponds to (and conflicts with) artistic endeavor. Students will write analyses of both films they watch for the course and films they choose to watch on their own. In keeping with the goals of the course, these analyses will require the students to fit the films into the context of cinema as a greater whole and to demonstrate an understanding of film as both art and industry. In addition, mid-term and final exams will require students to analyze certain films and their contributions to the development of cinema.
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3.00 Credits
Students will study the challenging process of adapting literature, drama, and true-life stories to film—what goes, what stays, and what changes. By working closely with different types of texts, students discover how the texts complement each other and how they often resist each other. (Also listed as ENG 112.)
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3.00 Credits
This workshop gives students the knowledge and tools necessary to write original or adapted screenplays, from the story concept to the final draft. Students will have two or three completed short film scripts or one feature-length script by the end of the semester. Elements covered in the course include the three-act structure, main plot, subplots, scene writing, cohesiveness and momentum, transitions and turning points, conflict, character functions and development, dialogue and description, and theme. Students will also learn to use the Final Draft software program. ( Also listed as WRI 256.)
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3.00 Credits
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
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3.00 Credits
This course teaches the basic concepts and critical approaches involved in interpreting film. Some of the approaches include humanism, auteurism, genre, social science, historicism, semiology, structuralism, Marxism, and feminism. Integrating these critical approaches with the language systems of film, students will increase their own appreciation of motion pictures, intelligently discuss these texts with others, better understand what filmmakers are saying as well as how they are saying it, and analyze how film texts both influence and reflect the culture in which they are made.
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2.00 Credits
The purpose of the Film Studies Practicum is to give students an opportunity to learn more about international films, directors, and cultures. The International Film Series provides a perfect forum for the practicum since the focus is on foreign film industries and their product. Students will actually take charge of the International Film Series: researching films for each semester’s lineup, presenting background information for the audiences, and leading group discussions after the films. Students will also be responsible for developing advertising for the series and sending out reminders for each viewing. The practicum experience each semester will culminate in a term paper, a critical analysis of one or more of the films presented in that semester. Students will take the practicum for two credits during each semester of the senior year (or two semesters total as required by extenuating circumstances, such as study abroad).
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3.00 Credits
Field Experience/Internship
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3.00 Credits
Independent Study
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3.00 Credits
An investigation on how geologic processes affect us, other living forms, and our environment. Geologic processes may create hazards through earthquakes, volcanoes, flooding, and landslides. Actions by humans can create hazards in our geological environment, for example, mine subsidence. The laboratory includes field work in the Pennsylvania-Ohio border region.
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3.00 Credits
An introductory study of the earth, its materials, its structure, the forces which act upon it and modify it, human interactions with the earth, and the earth’s history. The laboratory includes field work in the area, as well as in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia.
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