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Course Descriptions
2016-2017 Catalog
English - Film
130
ACCELERATED WRITING
5 units, 5 lecture hours, (Pass/No Pass)
ADVISORIES: Eligibility for English 252.
In this course, students will practice writing,
revising, and proofreading essays. Students will learn to
think critically and to logically develop and organize ideas.
Students will use readings to enhance their writing skills and
to learn how to integrate and document sources. This is an
accelerated course that prepares students for ENGL 1A. This
class is not intended for students who have taken English 252
or English 125. (A)
252
WRITING IMPROVEMENT
4 units, 4 lecture hours, (Pass/No Pass only)
PREREQUISITES: English 250 or English as a
Second Language 266W or placement by college assessment
process.
In this course, students will develop their writing
skills by composing short essays (both in and out of class), while
learning how to brainstorm, outline, draft, revise, and edit. In the
process, they will work on developing paragraphs and correcting
basic grammar errors. This course is a companion to ENGL 262
and prepares students for ENGL 125. Studentsmust successfully
complete written course work to receive credit.
262 READING IMPROVEMENT
4 units, 3 lecture hours, 2 lab hours, (Pass/No Pass)
PREREQUISITES: English 260 or English as a
Second Language 266R or placement by college placement
process.
English 262 includes a variety of group and
individual skill development activities in phonetic and
structural analysis, basic contextual vocabulary, and literal
and basic comprehension skills to foster independent reading
proficiency. This course prepares students for English 126.
It is recommended to be taken concurrently with English
252 or English 125.
272 ASSISTANCE IN COLLEGE WRITING
.5 -1 unit, 1.33-2.66 lab hours, (Pass/No Pass only)
This course is intended for any student requiring
help with written compositions in any discipline. The
course will provide intensive assistance in writing and
critical thinking. Students will develop, improve, and refine
compositions to sustain focus, employ analysis, reflection,
organization, and logical structure. All stages of the writing
process are practiced.
FILM (FILM)
1
INTRODUCTION TO FILM STUDIES
3 units, 3 lecture hours, (Pass/No Pass)
ADVISORIES: Eligibility for English 1A or 1AH.
A course demonstrating the uses of photography,
editing, and sound in the telling of film stories; it will explore
film and social issues, filmic meaning, and the main issues of
film theory and criticism. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
2A HISTORY OF CINEMA: 1895-1960
3 units, 3 lecture hours
ADVISORIES: Eligibility for English 125 or
English 126.
This course provides a survey of significant
moments in the creation, delivery, reception, and influence
of cinema from the 1890’s to 1960. Instruction will include
the origins of film technology and its increasing usefulness
for narrative, historical documentary, and political argument
or indoctrination, and aesthetics. Analysis will include the
discovery of how technology, society, public taste, history and
social concerns shaped the medium. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
2B HISTORY OF CINEMA:
1960 TO PRESENT
3 units, 3 lecture hours
ADVISORIES: Eligibility for English 125 or 126.
This course is a survey of significant films and
advances in the creation, reception and influence of cinema
from 1960 to the present. Instruction will include the
international reach and commercial success of the film
industry, the hegemony of Western film, the maintenance and
the re-tooling of Hollywood as a labor force from the Classical
period to the present. Also, this course charts the filmic
conventions and advancements of narrative and documentary
film, and how film is used as a political argument or as
indoctrination. Analyses will include varying film criticisms
from feminist to Marxist to reception theory, among others.
(A, CSU-GE, UC, I)