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Posted by Monte Maxwell.April 11th, 2016
Enroll in ULIB300: Film and Media Literacy to earn three credits and fulfill GEC requirements 5: Artistic Expression and 7: American Culture. ULIB300 has a service designation as civic engagement for work students do while editing Wikipedia articles on course related topics. The CRN is 51012.
Become a savvy media consumer while studying film vocabulary, criticism, and movie databases. In the context of Quentin Tarantino films, students study gangster films, dark comedy, Blaxploitation, slasher films, westerns, themes of revenge and historical revision. Media and information literacy concepts are practiced in media object analysis and experienced in immersion as Wikipedia editors.
For more information, visit the Libraries’ website. Questions? Contact the instructor: beth.toren@mail.wvu.edu or 304-293-0336.