Overview of IAH209 Film Noir

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  1. Hello, everyone.
  2. My name is Professor Schwartz, and my cat on Its
  3. and I are bringing you an overview of what to
  4. expect in I A H 209 film noir this semester
  5. for the fall of 2020.
  6. So we're going to talk quickly about what course focuses
  7. the kinds of assignments and projects that I'll be asking
  8. you to complete skills that you will practice and finally
  9. will wrap up in just a few minutes, talking about
  10. how this course is actually relevant to your real lives.
  11. So let's jump in and start off with coarse focus
  12. in I.
  13. H. 209 film noir You will be examining the bleak,
  14. pessimistic, visually interesting crime thriller.
  15. Movies produced during the 19 forties and fifties will be
  16. examining thes movies through the lenses of gender, sexuality, race,
  17. ethnicity, class and identity.
  18. The interesting thing about these films is that very often
  19. they provide critiques of US society and the American dream
  20. ethos that has held sway since the end of World
  21. War two.
  22. Refer to the syllabus and course schedule on d2l for
  23. more details about this particular course.
  24. Now let's look at the kinds of assignments and projects
  25. that I'll be asking you to complete over the next
  26. 15 weeks, so there will be 10 individual reflections at
  27. two points each, for a total of 20 possible points.
  28. You will start turning these in next week at the
  29. end of Week two, and there will be one do
  30. every week, usually at the end of the week through
  31. Week 13 you will be working in student learning teams
  32. to produce a newscast or talk show article review video,
  33. which will be due in Week five.
  34. This is worth 20 possible points a little later in
  35. the semester.
  36. During weekend, you will be working together to produce a
  37. reader's guide, also at 20 possible points.
  38. As we near the end of the semester in December,
  39. you will be working with your teammates to produce an
  40. academic poster put together using power point.
  41. And finally, at the very end of the semester, each
  42. student in the course will be responsible for drafting an
  43. individual semester reflection, also worth 20 possible points.
  44. Everything taken together, it gives you a nice round 100
  45. possible points for the course moving right along.
  46. Let's talk a little bit about some of those skills
  47. that you can expect to practice in this course, so
  48. students will be practicing critical thinking.
  49. What this is is self guided, self disciplined thinking that
  50. attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in
  51. a fair minded way.
  52. Students in the course will also be practicing what is
  53. called meta cognitive thinking.
  54. This is thinking about your own thinking.
  55. You're learning your personal choices and your work happens.
  56. In addition, students in the course will be practicing something
  57. called integrative Learning.
  58. This is looking for and finding connections between the work
  59. that you do in this course and your other coursework.
  60. Outside of I H 209 Fillmore as well as real
  61. life, you'll be looking to establish connections between all of
  62. those things.
  63. Finally, students in the course will be practicing high impact
  64. activities. These are team based, self reflective, writing intensive activities
  65. that feature a diversity of materials, experiences and points of
  66. view. Now all of that's very well and good, but
  67. it takes us to our fourth point in this short
  68. overview video.
  69. How is I H two on nine actually relevant to
  70. your real life?
  71. Well, here's help.
  72. Consider this the association of American colleges and universities reported
  73. in 2014 following a study that the capacity to think
  74. critically communicate clearly and solve complex problems is more important
  75. to employers than ones.
  76. Exact undergraduate major.
  77. In addition, 21st century employers report that they need more
  78. entry level hires with polished soft skills.
  79. That is, people skills, the ability to work with a
  80. wide variety of people and personality types to complete various
  81. projects in an efficient way.
  82. This course provides you with an opportunity to practice and
  83. refined those soft skills, which will make you more competitive
  84. in the real world.
  85. It So that brings us to the end of this
  86. overview video for I.
  87. H. 209 film noir.
  88. In the next several days, be sure to visit your
  89. d2l course pages for this particular course.
  90. Read carefully through the syllabus, the course schedule, the project
  91. packets and all of the other materials that are already
  92. uploaded there and waiting for you to begin.
  93. I will see you basically each week with another overview
  94. video, depending on what we're talking about for a given
  95. week, and we will be in touch via those videos
  96. as well as e mails and also during office hours,
  97. which will start in week two.
  98. Thanks so much.
  99. Bye bye