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Credit Hours: 3 Effective Term: Fall 2010 SUN#: None AGEC: |
Credit Breakdown: 3 Lectures Times for Credit: 1 Grading Option: A/F Cross-Listed: |
| Measurable Student Learning Outcomes |
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| 1. (Application Level) Use conventional terms of literary analysis in the examination and study of literature and film.
2. (Knowledge/Analysis Level) Identify and analyze the challenges, limitations, and adaptability of each medium in accomplishing particular aesthetic ends and in adapting a work from one medium to another. 3. (Analysis Level) Compose written comparative analysis of select films, and the literature from which they are derived, which examines the respective considerations of audience, presentation, composition and purpose. 4. (Knowledge/Comprehension Level) Identify specific conventions of a given genre. 5. (Analysis Level) Explain the cultural and aesthetic evolution of each medium and the social and historical values that have informed that evolution. 6. (Evaluation Level) Evaluate a given genre in literature and film as cultural commentary illustrating the social, economic, political, psychological and/or philosophical dynamics as they apply to a specific work or works. 7. (Evaluation Level) Critique the cultural, historical, and/or sociological commentaries on race, gender, social status and ethnicity as they apply to a given work. 8. (Evaluation/Analysis Levels) Evaluate and critique a variety of critical perspectives in relation to the student's own assessment of a given work. 9. (Analysis Level) Critique and assess the impact of specific narrative styles within a given genre. 10. (Synthesis Level) Develop strategies for the revision of written, grammatically correct discourse based on oral and written feedback from peers and the instructor. 11. (Synthesis Level) Demonstrate self-reflection and critical thinking in written and oral analysis/commentary. |
| Internal/External Standards Accreditation |
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1. Produce written analysis of literature and film using conventional terms and criteria specific to film and appropriate literary terminology.
2. Produce written and oral discourse that considers and assesses the aesthetic limitations and possibilities of film and literature. 3. Develop critical, logically organized discourse demonstrating an original idea/thesis supported by both textual evidence and appropriately cited academic sources. 4. Critique in written work, class presentations and/or discussions the relative success of plot, characterization, setting and other relevant elements when comparing the same work in both mediums. 5. Produce written discourse that demonstrates an understanding of genre and the limitations and the possibilities such considerations impose on the works in each medium. 6. Demonstrate through written and oral discourse knowledge of the changes that occur over time in each medium and the social, cultural and historical influences that promote these evolutions. 7. Produce written discourse that successfully integrates researched, scholarly critiques of a given film or literary work with the student's own perceptions and critical analysis. 8. Demonstrate through written literary analysis and oral discourse an understanding of the social, economic, political, psychological and/or philosophical dynamics representative of a given genre and/or era. 9. Develop written discourse, class presentations and/or discussions that indicates a process of reflection, revision and a mastery of college level punctuation and sentence structure. 10. Total output for the course includes 5000 words or more. 80% or more of the total written output for the course will be polished, revised work based on written and oral feedback from the instructor and peer review. |