FILM 171 Introduction to American Cinema

This course is an introduction to the history of American film and the study of aesthetic principles and technical terms as they apply to film as an art medium. 

Credits

3

Hours Weekly

3 hours weekly

Course Objectives

1. Identify and organize information and ideas related to enduring and contemporary issues in American cinema with a high degree of accuracy and appropriateness.
2. Demonstrate ability to generate, explore, and consider a wide range and number of ideas, possibilities, and alternatives in American cinema.
3. Examine ideas or outcomes in significant depth and make distinguished judgments of social and cultural contexts in thematic and technical concerns of American film.
4. Demonstrate considerable intellectual agility in transferring knowledge or connecting disparate ideas within American cinema.

Course Objectives

1. Identify and organize information and ideas related to enduring and contemporary issues in American cinema with a high degree of accuracy and appropriateness.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Critical and Creative Thinking Rubric

   Critical Thinking

   • CT1
2. Demonstrate ability to generate, explore, and consider a wide range and number of ideas, possibilities, and alternatives in American cinema.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Critical and Creative Thinking Rubric

   Critical Thinking

   • CT2
3. Examine ideas or outcomes in significant depth and make distinguished judgments of social and cultural contexts in thematic and technical concerns of American film.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Critical and Creative Thinking Rubric

   Critical Thinking

   • CT3
4. Demonstrate considerable intellectual agility in transferring knowledge or connecting disparate ideas within American cinema.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Exam

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Critical and Creative Thinking Rubric

   Critical Thinking

   • CT4