ENGL 260 — Literature and Film
Throughout time humans have had a need to tell a story. These stories have had some comm on goals: to reflect current culture, to inform the future, to examine the past, and to make sense of existence. Film and Literature are two modern forms of media that try to achieve these same goals. This course covers the techniques, vocabulary, and art of film and literature. It also explores the connections between both media. In this course students will learn how to "read" a film, examine the options and choices filmmakers have to tell their stories , identify those choices and link them to the themati c ideas the story holds. This course is writing intensive. Prerequisite(s): ENGL-100 or ENGL-101 Corequisite(s): ENGL-115