Fun Summer Film Course: Film and Media Literacy
Posted by Admin.April 24th, 2009
Wanted: WVU students who love movies and like online courses
We have the class for you.
Film and Media Literacy (ULIB300 CRN53044) is taught online. The course is an eCampus course and does not meet in a classroom. Students watch films independently in the private viewing rooms in the Media Services Department of the Downtown Campus Library. These rooms have 42” plasma screens and high quality sound systems to deliver an optimal atmosphere for viewing films. Students also have the option to watch films at home if they rent them.
Here are some quotes from students that took the course:
“This was also one of my first web classes and I felt it was better than other web classes I have taken this semester.”
“I really enjoyed this course and would like to take more classes like this.”
“This was my favorite class throughout all of college.”
In this class, you will choose four of eight genres to study. The choices are: Blaxploitation, Slasher, Gangster, Westerns, Dark Comedy, the Films of Quentin Tarantino, Graphic Novel Adaptations, and World Cinema. You will then select two of the fours genres to focus further on and watch five more films that capture the development of those genres. Finally, you will research and choose a film from lists in your selected genres to critique for your final assignment. You will also study media literacy, film criticism and vocabulary, and film databases.
For more information and a complete film list visit the course web page at http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/instruction/film/.