Provides students with opportunities to refine their writing at an advanced level. Builds writing skills through critical analysis of texts and issues while also encouraging creative expression. In addition to some essay-length writing assignments, the students will design and execute a major writing project that involves exploring a variety of ways of gathering, analyzing, and synthesizing material as well as presenting the final product in both written and oral form. Aims to enhance students' appreciation of and their critical engagement with film. Students will learn to analyze and understand how a given film's meaning is cinematically constructed.
Topics covered include basic film concepts and terminology, film history, and film criticism.
Sessions include evening meetings for screening of films.