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This document provides an overview and policies for an introductory film studies course taught by Ms. Laura McGrath at Michigan State University in the spring of 2013. The course will meet on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and include recitation sections. Attendance policies, expectations for participation, guidelines for contacting the professor, and information on academic integrity and student support services are outlined. The professor expresses hopes that students will experience the joy of learning through a study of film and broadening their perspectives.

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Intro To Film Syllabus

This document provides an overview and policies for an introductory film studies course taught by Ms. Laura McGrath at Michigan State University in the spring of 2013. The course will meet on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and include recitation sections. Attendance policies, expectations for participation, guidelines for contacting the professor, and information on academic integrity and student support services are outlined. The professor expresses hopes that students will experience the joy of learning through a study of film and broadening their perspectives.

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ENG 230: Intro to Film

Spring, 2013

Introduction to Film Studies

Ms. Laura McGrath mcgrat85@msu.edu Wells Hall, C710 Office Hours: Wednesday, 1:30-2:30 pm By appointment: http://bit.ly/10V4lFc

Monday, 11:30-2:20 Wednesday, 11:30-1:20 Friday Recitations: Section 001, 12:40-1:30 Section 004, 11:30-12:20

Course Policies
Everything you need to know in order to succeed this semester, including how to contact me.

Grading and Participation


Academic Integrity, Student Support Services, Additional Resources.

Additional Resources
Academic Integrity, Student Support Services

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Introduction to Film Studies: Course Policies


Attendance
So says Professor Yumibe: You will be allowed 2 absences during the term. Each absence in excess of 2 will lower your semester grade one half pointfor example, the third absence would drop a 4.0 grade to a 3.5, and so on. You will fail the course if you miss more than 4 class meetings. Please dont call my bluff. Documented or special cases should be discussed with me in advance. I do not differentiate between excused and unexcused absences. Students who arrive more than 10 minutes late and/or leave more than 10 minutes early will be docked half an absence. You may attend two screenings by the MSU Film Collective in order to make up for one absence. Thursday nights, 8 PM, Wells B122. An excessive pattern of tardiness is disruptive, and disrespectful to your peers and me. Please make every effort to be on time (Im looking at you, Starbucks line-waiters). Students who read, do homework, or are otherwise occupied during class will be marked absent. Yes, I can see you texting. Come to class ready participate and remain actively engaged.

Contacting Me:
Make use of my Google Calendar to sign up for an appointment slot for my office hours! Please come prepared with an agenda for our meeting. I am happy to make an appointment if you are unable to make my office hours; our meeting may be via Skype. If you would like me to read a draft (which I am happy to do), please send 24 hours in advance I do not check email after 5 PM o on weekends. Expect a 48-hour turnaround. You are not my only student; please include your name and section number in your emails. As this is a mid-level English course, grammar and punctuation count! Manners count, too.

Conduct: We will speak kindly and respectfully to


one another. No hateful or derogatory speech will be tolerated. Students who are unable to abide by the code of conduct will be asked to leave the classroom. Grading and Participation
Youre busy, Im busy: our lives are complicated. Part of being a college student is learning how to negotiate your competing responsibilities graciously. So says Professor Yumibe: Late assignments, except in the case of a documented emergency, will be marked down one full grade for every day they are late. Online quizzes are due one hour prior to class. Late quizzes will not be accepted. Readings must be completed before coming to class. I expect you to do all of the reading, attend screenings, and come to recitation prepared to talk. Being prepared for class also means bringing all relevant materials with you. Participation is assessed in regards to quantity and quality. In order to receive a 4.0 for participation, students must participate each and every class session at a high level. Some of you might be movie buffs; others might be curious newcomers. Thats great! Participating well means being open and receptive to others, regardless of experience level.
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Introduction to Film Studies


Student Support Services
Students requiring special accommodations, services, or resources should contact the Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities (RCPD) in Room 120 Bessey Hall (tel. 517-884-7273) Students who wish to improve their writing skills should contact the MSU Writing Center in Room 300 Bessey Hall (tel. 517432-3610). English Language Learners who wish to improve their English skills should visit the English Language Center in Room A714 Wells Hall (tel. 517-353-0800). I am happy to discuss your progress and strategies for improvement. Do stop by.

Academic Integrity
One of the most important principles in higher education is academic integrity. Quite simply, if you use someone elses words, ideas, texts, images, music, etc., you must cite your source. Purdues Online Writing Lab defines plagiarism as buying, stealing, or borrowing a paper (including, of course, copying an entire paper or article from the Web); hiring someone to write your paper for you; and copying large sections of text from a source without quotation marks or proper citation. You may not borrow the structure or syntax of another author and simply insert synonyms; avoid these gray areas. Students who allow others to copy their work are complicit in plagiarism, and will be similarly disciplined. Our enforcement of MSUs academic integry policy may include an automatic failure of the course and a potential referral to the dean of your college. Procedures for responding to cases of academic dishonesty are outlined in Spartan Life: Student Handbook and Resource Guide.

Hopes and Dreams


It is my hope that we will experience the joy of learning in community. A purpose of the humanities is to study and question what makes us human together. The study of film can help us to broaden our horizons, challenge our assumptions, and begin to see the world through the lens of another. We will learn to appreciate and embrace differences as learning opportunities, a chance to discover something new about the world through cinema. I hope that we will approach the films that we watch and the articles that we read as great things, things worthy of our thought, energy and attention. Through our endeavors, we can begin to discover more about ourselves, others, and about the world that we all inhabit.
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