FILM 193
Intermediate Film Writing
This course serves to instruct undergraduate Film & Media majors as well as students in other Humanities and Social Sciences departments in intermediate writing about moving images. Students will learn to craft sequence analyses (close readings of a single sequence), analytical essays (close readings of an entire film) and critical essays (close readings that use a piece of scholarship as critical framework or lens). Students will read texts about film writing, texts about academic writing, and film scholarship and criticism that model the forms of analysis they are learning to practice.
Topics
- To provide instruction in the vocabulary and skills needed to write three common essay types To cultivate a community of practice in which writers focus on process rather than product and view peers and instructors (including faculty visitors) as colleagues involved in a shared intellectual conversation
- Correctly and effectively deploy the vocabulary of film form Present and interpret evidence from a film text (descriptive analysis) Understand, recognize, and perform the basic functions of academic writing (explain the arguments of previous scholarly work, apply them to a new object of analysis, extend them by making an argument about what their insights about this new object of analysis add to the scholarly conversation Write a persuasive sequence analysis, analytical essay, and critical essay
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027