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Syllabus
Week 1: The first week of class is spent providing materials to students in preparation for the first film presentation, including film background information, character and vocabulary lists, and content questions. Students will also go through a process of nominating and voting on which award-winning (Academy, Sundance, Cannes only) films to be viewed during weeks 3 through 12.
Weeks 2-12: Each class will begin by presenting selected scenes without sound and then analyzing them as a class. The scenes will be viewed again with the soundtrack and altered perceptions examined in class. A 45 minute segment of the film containing these scenes will then be viewed without interruption, during which students will be expected to write down the dialog and make notes concerning any questions they may have. This presentation will be followed by a review and discussion of vocabulary, difficult phrases and intonation, and context-dependent expressions. Students will be expected to try and mimic actor dialog and intonation. One film will be presented in this manner each week.
Week 7: As the midway point of the semester, this course session will be dedicated to open discussion on the cultural experiences unique to students...
The session will facilitate a discussion in which students describe the manner in which watching the film's used in the course have enhanced their abilities to adapt to American culture or whether they have confounded them. This will be an opportunity for students and instructor to openly discuss expectations, experiences and feelings pertaining to the process of cultural and linguistic integration.
Week 13: The class will be divided up into 6 to 10 groups during the first week of class, depending on class size. These groups will be required to create a montage of film scenes the class viewed during the semester, with the goal of accurately recreating the dialog, body language, and intonation of the actors during a reenactment in front of the class. Preferably, the scene montage will provide some continuity in terms of a storyline, despite being taken from different films. Groups will be given approximately 20 minutes to complete their reenactment and should take no less than 15 minutes. Discussions, in terms of vocabulary, expressions, context, intonation, and body language, will follow each…
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