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ENG 196 - Introduction to Film Studies
Pre-requisite: a passing score (C-/P or better) in WR 95 or its equivalent, or placement into WR 115 (a score of 76RD and 76WR on the placement test). ENG 196 is the second course of a year-long sequence focusing on the history, art, and social contexts of film as an art form. A primary objective of the course is to enhance students' enjoyment and appreciation of film by developing their cinematic literacy. Students are introduced to the basic elements of film language, including cinematography, mise en scène, editing, and sound. While American films are emphasized, the sequence also focuses at times on international cinema, looking at all films in the context of time, culture, and ideological effects. Weekly campus screenings are required, and clips of films are used in class for close analysis of aural and visual elements. A variety of assignments and activities develop and test student's "ways of seeing." ENG 196 reviews the elements of film style relating to the individual film shot, but it emphasizes the formal means by which shots are built into the larger structures of scene, segment, and finished film: editing, sound, screenwriting, and narrative structure (e.g., editing style - sequence shots, continuity editing, montage and editing techniques - on the types and uses of film: foley, dialogue, theme music, etc.). 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 24.000 Lecture hours 0.000 TO 48.000 Other hours Syllabus Available Levels: Credit Schedule Types: Lec/Lab, Lecture, Lecture plus Lec/Lab All Sections for this Course Arts & Humanities Division Writing/Literature Department Course Attributes: Tuition, Arts and Letters Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Credit May not be enrolled in one of the following Colleges: College Now Prerequisites: Credit level WR 095 Minimum Grade of C- or Credit level WR 095 Minimum Grade of P or ( Accuplacer Sentence Skills 076 and Accuplacer Read. Comprehension 076)

ENG 196 - Introduction to Film Studies

Pre-requisite: a passing score (C-/P or better) in WR 95 or its equivalent, or placement into WR 115 (a score of 76RD and 76WR on the placement test). ENG 196 is the second course of a year-long sequence focusing on the history, art, and social contexts of film as an art form. A primary objective of the course is to enhance students' enjoyment and appreciation of film by developing their cinematic literacy. Students are introduced to the basic elements of film language, including cinematography, mise en scène, editing, and sound. While American films are emphasized, the sequence also focuses at times on international cinema, looking at all films in the context of time, culture, and ideological effects. Weekly campus screenings are required, and clips of films are used in class for close analysis of aural and visual elements. A variety of assignments and activities develop and test student's "ways of seeing." ENG 196 reviews the elements of film style relating to the individual film shot, but it emphasizes the formal means by which shots are built into the larger structures of scene, segment, and finished film: editing, sound, screenwriting, and narrative structure (e.g., editing style - sequence shots, continuity editing, montage and editing techniques - on the types and uses of film: foley, dialogue, theme music, etc.).
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 24.000 Lecture hours
0.000 TO 48.000 Other hours

Syllabus Available
Levels: Credit
Schedule Types: Lec/Lab, Lecture, Lecture plus Lec/Lab
All Sections for this Course

Arts & Humanities Division
Writing/Literature Department

Course Attributes:
Tuition, Arts and Letters

Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels:
Credit
May not be enrolled in one of the following Colleges:
College Now

Prerequisites:
Credit level WR 095 Minimum Grade of C- or Credit level WR 095 Minimum Grade of P or ( Accuplacer Sentence Skills 076 and Accuplacer Read. Comprehension 076)

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