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3.00 Credits
This course reviews basic skills of speech composition and delivery. Students learn about audience analysis, organization and outlining, and the effective use of non-verbal materials for different types of vocal presentations. These techniques are applicable to a variety of settings in business or education. Student progress is enhanced by periodic instructor evaluation, peer feedback, and frequent recording of speeches. 3 credits
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This womens studies course focuses specifically on body image, self-perception, and body work/changes. Students in this course will deepen their understanding of body image as they study literature, art, film, and material culture in order to examine the diversity of human experience related to our bodies. The course will explore biological, sociological, and feminist perspectives on body image and beauty culture, focusing on how race, class, and the media influence self-perception and our perceptions of others. The course will culminate with the creation of a collaborative, co-curricular project to share publically student research findings about body image and the challenges and triumphs associated with it in our contemporary culture. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course explores films that are themselves controversial or ideological-some obviously, others less so. Beyond individual examples, we will examine the nature of film as a medium for political discourse, as well as the politics of film production, distribution, and interpretation. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the art of film direction through a close analysis of the career of one or more of the masters of world cinema. The directors studied will vary each time the course is offered, and the course can be repeated by interested students. Examples include, but are not limited to: Welles, Kubrick, Hitchcock, the Coen Brothers, Scorsese, Fellini, Kurosawa, Herzog, Almodovar, Bergman, Godard, and Kiarostami. Directors selected in a given term will be assessed in terms of technical innovation, cultural and political significance, and key trends in the history of national and international cinema. 3 credits
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This course assesses the evolution and influence of a particular film genre, with special attention paid to the difficulties of defining and working within a genre. The genre studied will vary each time the course is offered, and the course can be repeated by interested students. Examples include, but are not limited to: film noir, documentary, the period film, cyberpunk, comedy, the political thriller, the war film, western, superhero film, science fiction and fantasy, and the gangster film. In each case, the ways in which genres cross-pollinate and transform one another will also be explored. 3 credits
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1.00 Credits
This practicum course is designed for English majors and minors who are interested in co-curricular programming associated with the Film and Media Studies concentration. Students will have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with events associated with film and media issues. For example, students might assist with development of the annual Cabrini College Film Festival, facilitate panel discussions, organize film and media scholarship and conference events, or assist with marketing and programming related to the concentration. Course may be repeated for credit. Credit to be arranged
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
The course reviews major texts from early Spanish, French, and British colonization of the Americas, the Puritan period, the Virginia experience, the American Revolution, and the early Republic. In each semester, the course will focus on a unique facet of the American literary tradition, such as indigenous voices, slave narratives, the sermon, and political tracts. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
In this "Heritage" course students will examine American literature in the nineteenth century to discover the literary practices that distinguish nineteenth-century American writers from their English and European counterparts. Classic American writers like Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson will be studied, as will signature historical events influencing writers of the American Romantic period. Offered each fall. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
This "Heritage" course examines American literature in the early 20th century to reveal the remarkably diverse literary practices that define the American Modernist era. Specifically, our consideration of early-century poetry, prose, and drama will suggest that American Modernism is not so much an artistic movement as it is an expression of avant-garde trends we are only beginning to understand. Works by Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and others will be considered. Offered each spring. 3 credits
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