- Professor: Ryan McKinney
Through mini lectures, readings, discussions and production workshops and labs, this course explores the horror genre in a transnational context. The course combines theoretical and experiential learning to help broaden students’ theoretical and historical knowledge and deepen their artistic practices.
- Professor: Raphael Raphael
- Professor: Ryan McKinney
This course gives the beginning filmmaker hands-on experience practicing the fundamentals of post production editing and sound design. Through lectures, reading, and a series of shooting and editing exercises, you learn how to shape your story and guide your audience’s emotional and intellectual experience of your film.
Students must already have already installed editing software on their computer (Premiere, FinalCut Pro, Avid, or other) and understand basic editing moves such as cutting clips, creating sequences, and outputting.
Throughout the semester, students shoot and edit three short 30- to 60-second exercises. The final project is prepping, shooting, editing, and scoring a 2 to 5-minute narrative short.
This course will combine practical with theoretical learning in helping students gain a solid foundation in postproduction editing and sound design.
- Professor: Alison Marek
This course focuses on central issues and concerns relating to the effective management of teaching and learning processes in second and foreign language classrooms. In this course management does not mean the creation of budgets and the creation of timelines, but the creation of a positive pedagogical environment which facilitates learning.
The focus of the course is on the professional decisions that teachers must make in order to ensure that learning takes place effectively. Content will include lesson planning; teacher talk, including the effective use of questions, the provision of explanations and the use of feedback; classroom dynamics; instructional groups, small group work, dealing with large classes, one-to-one teaching, and learner-teacher roles; affective issues in the language classroom; and classroom monitoring and evaluation.
- Professor: Billy Vermillion
As digital media replace the photo-chemical basis of the filmic text and the cinematic experience, we should take the opportunity to return to the originary moment of the movies and rethink the issue of “aesthetics.” This course will thus consider “film-form-degree-zero,” re-examining theories of early cinema and the basics of filmic construction, including the shot, framing, the moving camera and editing. We will then consider more sophisticated films from the standpoint of the creation of on-screen and off-screen space and complex narrative strategies. Finally, we will take a moment in the stream of mid-century cinema, at the height of Hollywood’s so-called “Classical” era, and see how what has come to be taken as a standardized film language was, in fact, roiling with experimentation.
- Professor: David Desser
This course focuses on central issues and concerns relating to the effective management of teaching and learning processes in second and foreign language classrooms. In this course management does not mean the creation of budgets and the creation of timelines, but the creation of a positive pedagogical environment which facilitates learning.
The focus of the course is on the professional decisions that teachers must make in order to ensure that learning takes place effectively. Content will include lesson planning; teacher talk, including the effective use of questions, the provision of explanations and the use of feedback; classroom dynamics; instructional groups, small group work, dealing with large classes, one-to-one teaching, and learner-teacher roles; affective issues in the language classroom; and classroom monitoring and evaluation.
- Professor: Lily Alexander
- Professor: Raphael Raphael
- Professor: Ryan McKinney