Honors HU 1540 Requirements

Honors HU 1540 From Real to Reel & Script to Bits — An Introduction to Film

Requirements

I expect regular and active attendance. Regular attendance will enable you to make regular contributions to our discussions. The more you contribute, the better—both for the intellectual climate of the classroom and for your own learning curve. By not showing up (on time), you deprive yourself of valuable class discussion, just as you deprive your classmates of your own contributions. So: If you know that you're going to have to miss more than 2 classes (the equivalent of six 50-minutes classes), you should drop the course this semester and enroll at another time. There are no "excused absences."

I will ask you to select three (=3) of the screened films and write a preformatted screening report (MS Word or Adobe). These reports will be due electronically as email attachments one week after their respective screenings. Click here for Samples Make sure that you integrate our reading(s) into your report.

I will ask you to give an introductory presentation of about 5-10 minutes on a film/director on the syllabus, and then facilitate the class discussion following the screening. Your job will be to steer the class discussion by analyzing select key scenes in the film and by incorporating our readings. Your introduction/facilitation must be accompanied by a handout that you distribute the week before your report.

You are required to write one 7-10 page film essay on any of the films on the syllabus. This paper must demonstrate on a larger scale the formal and thematic skills of analysis that you have developed. Due date: Monday, 15 April 2013 (to coincide with tax day:)) Click here for Samples Please note that your screening reports, your presentation/facilitation, and your final essays ought to be on different films.

A take-home essay question exam. Your final grade will be made up as follows:

Attendance/Participation	20 %
Screening Reports	20 %
Presentation/Facilitation	20 %
Final Essay	20 %
Final Exam	20 %

Please note that you will have to fulfill each of these requirements to pass this class and do well in it.

It is your responsibility to become familiar with the standards of academic integrity at WSU. Passing off someone else's work or ideas as your own is grounds for failure.

The Prime Directives, a.k.a. The Ground (or Golden) Rules

Assignments must be typewritten and are due on the date specified—no exceptions.
No electronic submissions.
For reasons of class integrity, and out of consideration to others, do not come late or leave early. For the same reason, I will not be able to accept late work.

Bottom line (repeat): Be there in body and mind!

Disability Accommodation: PPM 3-34 notes: “When students seek accommodation in a regularly scheduled course, they have the responsibility to make such requests at the Center for Students with Disabilities (SSD, #181 of Student Services Center) before the beginning of the semester in which the accommodation is being requested. When a student fails to make such arrangements, interim accommodations can be made by the instructor, pending the determination of the request for a permanent accommodation."

Emergency Closure: In the unlikely event of an extended campus closure, we will conduct our course electronically via email and virtual discussion groups. In this case, please make sure that you check your email account regularly for messages and attachments (in Word, PowerPoint, or audio) coming from me and/or your fellow seminar participants. Such messages may function as lecture substitutes, provide directions for reading and writing assignments, and contain other relevant information. Also make sure that your account has adequate storage capacity for transmitting documents. I will collect your email address and verify its availability during the first week of class. Please let me know by the end of the first week of the semester if you do not have access to a computer and/or the Internet from your home. Thanks

Core Beliefs: According to PPM 6-22 IV, students are to “determine, before the last day to drop courses without penalty, when course requirements conflict with a student's core beliefs. If there is such a conflict, the student should consider dropping the class. A student who finds this solution impracticable may request a resolution from the instructor. This policy does not oblige the instructor to grant the request, except in those cases when a denial would be arbitrary and capricious or illegal. This request must be made to the instructor in writing and the student must deliver a copy of the request to the office of the department head. The student's request must articulate the burden the requirement would place on the student's beliefs."