Video Drama sharpens students' writing and speaking skills by writing and acting in a drama that will be videotaped. Students will develop characters, plots and scenes, write appropriate dialogs and perform in the drama. Both reading and writing exercises will be practiced. This class is open to students in levels 700 and 800. Through Film introduces students to modern films.
Students improve their listening by watching one film per week and reading the screenplays.
The course examines aspects of culture such as family, love, war, success, and discrimination as they appear, both comically and tragically, in recent North American films.