2022/3, Trimester 1, FACE-TO-FACE,
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Occurrence: | 001 |
Primary mode of delivery: | FACE-TO-FACE |
Location of delivery: | MERCHISTON |
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Member of staff responsible for delivering module: | Tara Thomson |
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Learning, Teaching and Assessment (LTA) Approach: |
Learning and teaching on this module includes lectures, tutorials, independent study, peer presentations, and individual or group assessments to provide you with a variety of contexts in which to engage with the assigned films, texts, and topics. Following your independent study of assigned viewing and reading, supported by Moodle, weekly lectures will set out relevant historical, socio-cultural, aesthetic, and critical contexts to develop your knowledge of key terms, concepts, and cinematic movements, and to help frame your further engagement with the assigned films (LOs 1, 2, 3 and 4). Lectures will be content-rich and will model the kinds of analysis required for critically examining the films (LOs 3 and 4); however, they will also be interactive, featuring screening clips for discussion and a variety of opportunities for student interaction (LOs 3 and 5). In tutorials, you will have the opportunity to deploy and develop your film analysis skills in a student-centred learning environment, and to deepen your understanding of key concepts through group discussion (LO5). This module will build on content and skills learning from year 1 modules, particularly Film History and Reading Texts, and will establish some helpful foundations for your further learning on Contemporary Hollywood Cinema in Tri 2 of year 2.The assessments are designed to help you establish your understanding of core module contexts and concepts (LOs 1 and 2), and to critically examine specific films in relation to those contexts and concepts (LOs 3, 4 and 5). This module will build on your previous experiences of written assessment from year 1 and add new types of learning and assessment, including videographic criticism (video essays), streaming recorded presentations, and peer assessment. You will be able to use and further develop these new skills in some further modules in years 2, 3 and 4.
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There are no separate formative assessment tasks on this module, but you will undertake a variety of activities that provide formative development opportunities and feedback, including: question and answer periods during lectures (LOs 1, 2, 3 and 4); oral feedback from your tutor and classmates on your responses to the tutorial discussion questions (LOs 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5); opportunities for individualised feedback on your understanding of and engagement with the module, and your assessment planning (LO5), during regularly scheduled office hours; and lecturer/tutor feedback on your first summative assessment that can help develop your work for the second summative assessment (LO5). You will also benefit from ungraded peer feedback on your first assessment, the video essay/presentation, and providing such peer feedback in turn will help you to both learn from your peers and gain further literacy in assessment criteria (LOs 3 and 5).
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On this module, you will submit two summative assessments: a sequence analysis, in the form of either a pre-recorded presentation or a short video essay, and a final written or video essay.The sequence analysis (LOs 1, 2, 3 and 5), worth 40% of your module grade, is due in week 7, and can be done either individually or in pairs. You can choose to either record a powerpoint presentation with audio (5-6 mins) or create a short video essay (2-3 mins), in which you analyse a selected sequence of one of the assigned films to consider how the sequence responds to relevant contexts of modernity, as discussed during the first half of the module. Choosing the video essay option would provide you with an opportunity for technical learning and videographic skills development if you would like to create a video essay for the final assessment. Your presentation or video essay will be shared with the class via Moodle, and you will be asked to provide feedback online for at least two sets of your peers. A peer feedback template and guidance will be provided.The final assessment (LOs 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), worth 60% of your module grade, is due in week 13, and will be done individually. You can choose to either write an essay (2500 words) or create a video essay (5-7 mins). For both options, you will be expected to incorporate independent academic research, and you will be provided with a specific question to answer about modernism in cinema.
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Student Activity (Notional Equivalent Study Hours (NESH)) |
Mode of activity | Learning & Teaching Activity | NESH (Study Hours) |
Face To Face | Lecture | 20 |
Face To Face | Tutorial | 10 |
Face To Face | Guided independent study | 170 |
| Total Study Hours | 200 |
| Expected Total Study Hours for Module | 200 |
Assessment |
Type of Assessment | Weighting % | LOs covered | Week due | Length in Hours/Words |
Oral Presentation | 40 | 1,2,3,5 | 7 | HOURS= 05.00 |
Essay | 60 | 1,2,3,4,5 | 13 | HOURS= 07.00, WORDS= 2500 |
Component 1 subtotal: | 40 | |
Component 2 subtotal: | 60 | | | |
Module subtotal: | 100 | | | |