Students who have not managed either to attend the
screenings and/or to submit their online contributions the required number of
times will produce their final assignments for both Task A and Task B (provided
they have completed at least 50% of the requirements).
Students who have attended/contributed less than 50% will not pass the course.
In this course we will explore the British and American cultures as depicted through the lenses of various British and American films. Topics of cultural diversity, ethnic and minority identities, and social justice will be explored. The course is facilitated by three instructors, with introductory comments by each on film-making and cinematography, use of language as well as history and culture.
1 Attendance (you can miss one of the 6 screenings)
2 Online forums (you can miss one of the 6 forums)
In each forum you will be asked to post your own contribution (min 200 words) and also respond to somebody else's contribution (min 100 words). The numbers you will see in the assessment do NOT mean credits or points, they are only codes to help us check whether you have completed both parts of the task (i.e. *100 for the main contribution, *1 for any other response).
3 Final paper: (400 - 500 words in MLA format), you can choose either Task A or Task B.
You are expected to write an essay and there is a CHOICE. You
write it either:
(B) to analyse a "seventh" film in a manner that is similar to that in which we looked together at the six films in the Scala.
The films to choose from for this TASK
B are:
1. The Death of a Salesman
(1985, with Dustin Hoffman)
2. Apocalypse Now (1979)
3. Dogville (2003)
4. JFK (1991, with Kevin
Costner)
5. Hamlet (1996, Kenneth
Branagh)
The essay is to be submitted before June 5 in the
"Homework vaults" (Odevzdávárna) in the Information System.