Students will learn to transfer issues emphasized in lectures to their own film-viewing responses. Students are asked several prompts during lectures to engage their response. Students are asked to identify key passages in films during lectures. Students are quizzed on materials covered in lectures. Students will participate in classroom discussions.
Discussions take place in the context of review of filmic material.
Students may review what they have written on short essays turned in the next class period. Students taking paired quizzes collaborate and discuss materials. Students will write a variety of documents. Students will become better college-level writers by experiencing multiple and diverse writing assignments. Students will understand quantitative problems.