ENGL 2057 - Hollywood or Bust!

North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2020

Hollywood is the most pervasive and powerful film industry in the world. Most of us are familiar with its products as consumers seeking entertainment, but this course adopts an analytic view to reveal that there is so much more to be enjoyed. Taking this course will permanently enrich your understanding of the films you see every day. It covers Hollywood's history from the early twentieth century to the present day. You will have the opportunity to engage with key films and genres, and you will consider influential critical perspectives. You will acquire a detailed understanding of the significance of Hollywood as an artistic, industrial and ideological centre. Elements of course content will be open to your input as students. This ensures that the course will remain up-to-date and evolve so that it is relevant to your concerns. Course activities and assessments will help you develop skills research, analysis and communication that are transferable to many contexts.

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Course Details

Course Code	ENGL 2057
Course	Hollywood or Bust!
Coordinating Unit	English, Creative Writing, and Film
Term	Semester 2
Level	Undergraduate
Location/s	North Terrace Campus
Units	3
Contact	Up to 3 hours per week
Available for Study Abroad and Exchange	Y
Prerequisites	At least 12 units of Level I undergraduate study. Students must be 18 years of age at commencement of classes due to discussion of R rated themes and materials
Incompatible	ENGL 2031 & ENGL 3031
Assumed Knowledge	3 units of Level I English, ENGL 1105
Biennial Course	Course offered in even years
Assessment	Key concepts quiz (500 words equivalent) 10%, Research Exercise (1500 words) 30%, Essay (2500 words) 60%

Course Staff

Course Coordinator: Dr Joy McEntee

Course Timetable

The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from Course Planner.

Course Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1	Demonstrate knowledge about the Hollywood film industry's history
2	Demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of the significance of Hollywood as an artistic, industrial and ideological centre
3	Engage with a variety of critical perspectives on Hollywood cinema
4	Conduct self-directed research
5	Analyse, synthesise and communicate information effectively
6	Work with appropriate technologies
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University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attribute(s) specified below:

University Graduate Attribute	Course Learning Outcome(s)
Deep discipline knowledge informed and infused by cutting edge research, scaffolded throughout their program of studies acquired from personal interaction with research active educators, from year 1 accredited or validated against national or international standards (for relevant programs)	1-4
Critical thinking and problem solving steeped in research methods and rigor based on empirical evidence and the scientific approach to knowledge development demonstrated through appropriate and relevant assessment	1-5
Teamwork and communication skills developed from, with, and via the SGDE honed through assessment and practice throughout the program of studies encouraged and valued in all aspects of learning	5
Career and leadership readiness technology savvy professional and, where relevant, fully accredited forward thinking and well informed tested and validated by work based experiences	6

Learning Resources

Required Resources

Provisional. Films may include:

Selections from The Birth of a Nation. D.W. Griffith, 1915.
The Kid. Dir. Charles Chaplin, 1921.
Gold Diggers of 1933. Dir. Mervyn Le Roy, 1933.
Citizen Kane. Dir. Orson Welles, 1941.
Sunset Boulevard. Dir. Billy Wilder, 1950.
The Searchers. Dir. John Ford, 1956.
Bonnie and Clyde. Dir. Arthur Penn, 1967.
Alien. Dir. Ridley Scott, 1979.
Goodfellas. Dir. Martin Scorsese, 1990.
Hail, Caesar! Dir. Joel and Ethan Coen, 2016.
Get Out. Dir. Jordan Peele, 2017.
Lady Bird. Dir. Greta Gerwig, 2017.

Recommended Resources

Richard Barsam. Looking at Movies.
David. A. Cook. A History of Narrative Film.
Timothy Corrigan. A Short Guide to Writing about Film
Timothy Corrigan and Patricia White. The Film Experience
Peter Decherney. Hollywood: a Very Short Introduction
Susan Hayward. Cinema Studies: the Key Concepts.
Richard Maltby. Hollywood Cinema.
Robert Stam. Film Theory: an Introduction

Online Learning

This course makes active use of MyUni and Echo 360 ALP. For copyright reasons, not all sections of workshop presentations will be available on MyUni, but as much as can be made available will be made available. Readings and assessments will also be made available through MyUni.
Learning & Teaching Activities

Learning & Teaching Modes

Teaching and learning modes will include lectures and workshops. Films will not be screened. Students are expected to see them independently. Copies will be made available on DVD through Barr Smith High Use.

Workload

The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.

Total workload for the semester will be 156 hours.

Learning Activities Summary

Learning activities will include film viewing, reading, writing about films and readings, lectures and workshops.

The University's policy on Assessment for Coursework Programs is based on the following four principles:

Assessment must encourage and reinforce learning.
Assessment must enable robust and fair judgements about student performance.
Assessment practices must be fair and equitable to students and give them the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned.
Assessment must maintain academic standards.

Assessment Summary

Item Description Formative or summative Value
Essay 1 1500 words. Students will analyse critical essay on one film. Formative and summative 40%
Essay 2 2500 words. Students will write a critical essay on another film. Formative and summative 60%

Modified arrangements have been made to assessments and the details provided here reflect recent updates.

Assessment Task	Weighting
Quiz	10%
Essay 1	30%
Essay 2	50%
Participation	10%

Assessment Detail

No information currently available.

Submission

Submission should be via MyUni.

Course Grading

Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:

M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme)
Grade	Mark	Description
FNS		Fail No Submission
F	1-49	Fail
P	50-64	Pass
C	65-74	Credit
D	75-84	Distinction
HD	85-100	High Distinction
CN		Continuing
NFE		No Formal Examination
RP		Result Pending

Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.

Grade Descriptors are available which provide a general guide to the standard of work that is expected at each grade level. More information at Assessment for Coursework Programs.

Final results for this course will be made available through Access Adelaide.

Student Feedback

The University places a high priority on approaches to learning and teaching that enhance the student experience. Feedback is sought from students in a variety of ways including on-going engagement with staff, the use of online discussion boards and the use of Student Experience of Learning and Teaching (SELT) surveys as well as GOS surveys and Program reviews.

SELTs are an important source of information to inform individual teaching practice, decisions about teaching duties, and course and program curriculum design. They enable the University to assess how effectively its learning environments and teaching practices facilitate student engagement and learning outcomes. Under the current SELT Policy (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/policies/101/) course SELTs are mandated and must be conducted at the conclusion of each term/semester/trimester for every course offering. Feedback on issues raised through course SELT surveys is made available to enrolled students through various resources (e.g. MyUni). In addition aggregated course SELT data is available.
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Policies & Guidelines
This section contains links to relevant assessment-related policies and guidelines - all university policies.
In addition to other University policy and procedures, the Department of English and Creative Writing Policies and Procedures will apply in this course.
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