Open when gep_category = HUM
Each course in the Humanities category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = MATH
Each course in the Mathematial Sciences category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to:
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Each course in the Natural Sciences category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to:
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Each course in the Social Sciences category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to:
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Each course in the Interdisciplinary Perspectives category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
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Each course in the Visual and Performing Arts category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
Describe the aesthetic, historical and cultural evolution of the cinema in France. Explain the characteristics of the major periods of French cinema from its invention to the present day comparing "ideas, values, images, cultural artifacts, economic structures, technological developments, [and] attitudes.”
Short answer homework assignments/essay exam questions.
Sample homework prompt: For the film Faubourg 36, How does the story of the film (of Pigoil, Jojo and Douce) help us to to understand the social political and economic history of 1935-36 in France (National Front, economic crisis).
Describe how a film reflects its historical context and identify the narrative and cinematic devices employed in a film, such as theme, point of view, mise-en scène, and composition, and relate them to the content of the film.
Short answer homework assignments/essay exam questions.
Sample prompt: After viewing a clip of a film presented in class: Identify the film. Analyze and discuss the clip and its role in the entire film. Next, how does this clip and this film, its themes and cinematic techniques illustrate its period and its place in the history of French cinema.
Evaluate, orally and in writing, selected French films and their continuing aesthetic validity or challenge, supporting the analysis and assessment with cinematic evidence.
Final Paper. Student submits in draft and final a research paper in French on a French film that was not already studied in the class. The draft is due on the same day as the student presents the film orally to the class. The draft is returned to the student and the final version is due on Reading Day. Description of assignment. Film paper and presentation must include: Identify the film’s genre. Summarize the plot. Explain the structure and the themes of the film, noting the essential vocabulary specific to the film. Describe the main characters. Discuss the selected clip and identify its cinematographic techniques. Explain how the film fits into the heritage of French cinema. The oral presentation includes what the student appreciated the most in this film and why you selected it and a written a pedagogical sheet for the class with title, names of directors, characters and actors, and notes on the vocabulary, structure, themes, and resources consulted.
Open when gep_category = HES
Each course in the Health and Exercise Studies category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
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Open when gep_category = GLOBAL
Each course in the Global Knowledge category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to achieve objective #1 plus at least one of objectives 2, 3, and 4:
Please complete at least 1 of the following student objectives.
Open when gep_category = USDIV
Each course in the US Diversity category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to achieve at least 2 of the following
objectives:
Please complete at least 2 of the following student objectives.