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| Fall 2012 | ENGL 604. | M | 6:00 - 8:40 | RH201 | Scott Balcerzak | |
Title: TOPICS IN MATERIALS FOR THE ENGLISH CLASSROOMCourse Description: An analysis of new curriculum materials in English, with focus on language, literature, or composition. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours when topic varies.PRQ: | ||||||
| Detailed Course Description:Students will practice different approaches to teaching film while also learning some fundamentals of cinema scholarship. The class will be organized into three sections: film language, film adaptation, and cultural studies of film. Students will create and workshop different classroom materials for each of these sections that will be applicable to their level of teaching. | ||||||
| Course Requirements:Throughout the semester, students will create an extensive teaching portfolio consisting of assignment prompts, grading rubrics, lesson plans, and other classroom materials. They will consistently partake in open workshops, often giving sample lectures and overseeing classroom discussions. Also, students will write short comprehension papers in correspondence with the semester’s three topic sections: film language, film adaptation, and cultural studies. Out-of-class personal viewings of films will be mandatory. | ||||||
| Required Texts:-John Golden. Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2001. -William H. Phillips. Film: An Introduction. 4th Ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2009. -William Shakespeare. Macbeth. (Any Edition). -Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Broadview Press) -TBA e-reserve readings | ||||||
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