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All assignments are due on time--no late papers or late online quizzes. Please note that without an officially documented medical emergency, there will be no make-up exams or incompletes. To obtain this document in an alternative format and request accommodations, please contact the Disability Services Coordinator, 678-466-5445, disabilityservices@clayton.edu
Completion and submission of all assignments are your own responsibility. Your active participation and willingness to keep pace with all assignments are essential to your success in the course.
You MUST check your CSU email account regularly for important notices and updates; this is especially important if you are enrolled in an online version of the course, since we do not regularly meet in person. "I didn't check my email for a few days so I only just got your message" and "I never check that account" are not a valid excuses for missing important course updates, and your grade may suffer as a result.
Our online lectures examine each week's assigned topics, readings, and films. Since studying moving images in a static textbook is hardly ideal, each lecture is illustrated with multiple film clips. See the In-class Screening List on the Study Guides page for a complete list of these clips.
Watch the lectures in order as they are assigned. It is in your best interest to keep pace with these lectures and our course material, so plan ahead for this time each week; each lecture is approximately 75 minutes long, and there are multiple lectures assigned each week. Do NOT wait until the night before the exam to watch hours of lectures for that section of the course.
Instead, for each topic:
Note that the lectures are only available during the weeks we are studying them; the hyperlinks expire after we have covered that section of material.
You should view these online lectures only while connected to the CSU network or a high-speed internet connection. If you are working on a dial-up modem, these files will take 20-40 minutes just to download and may overwhelm your system.
Also, you MUST have Real Media Player installed on your computer to play these clips. If you do not have Real, you can download if for free at http://www.real.com/.
The sound quality is best if you use high-quality headphones or external speakers, rather than simply your computer's built-in speaker.
Our 20 study clips are required out-of-class exercises on WebCT-Vista. They will help you to learn our film terminology and especially to recognize how those terms are employed onscreen. This is the most important skill you will learn in this course, so do not skip these valuable exercises.
Each clip is worth one percentage point of your final course grade; all of the study clips together add up to 20 points total, so the study clips make up 20% of your final course grade. That means if you earn a "0.7" on a particular week's study clip, then that's 70% of the 1.0 point possible for that clip. If you earn a "1.0" on a study clip, then you earned 100% of that one percentage point toward your final course grade.
You may practice each clip question up to 5 times but ONLY during the week it is assigned, so don't forget! Your graded score will be an average of all 5 attempts, so if you don't score well on the first attempt, you have four more opportunities to bring up your average.
You MUST have QuickTime Media Player installed on your computer to play these clips. If you do not have QuickTime, you can download if for free at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/.
You should download and view these online clips only while connected to the CSU network or a high-speed internet connection. These files will take 20-40 minutes to download if you are working on a dial-up modem. All of the clips are also available on this webpage.
If you cannot connect to a high-speed connection, you will find the same clips on your textbook's CD-ROM; you do not need to be online to view the clips from your CD-ROM.
All pop-up blockers must be turned off on your computer. These clips will open in a new browser window.
We will have two announced quizzes during the first half the semester. These two quizzes, combined with the first ten study clip questions described above, will usually comprise your midterm grade for the course.
Note that, depending when the Registrar's official midterm grade deadline falls this term, your midterm grade as posted on the DUCK may not be able to include Quiz 2, and it never includes your midterm exam grade. That means that your official midterm grade comprises only 20-30% of your final course average; it's more of an early progress report than an actual 50% midterm grade.
You also have optional weekly practice quizzes and study questions available via your CD-ROM. These quizzes were designed by your textbook's authors to help you keep pace with your readings. They will help you to stay prepared for class/exams and to better engage with the course material. You should not email me your scores, but I highly recommend that you study with these CD quizzes on your own.
The midterm exam and final (cumulative) exams will ask a combination of multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, true-or-false, and clip-analysis questions. No blue books are needed, but always bring two number-2 pencils and two pens for in-class exams.