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NYUS3102: Expressive Culture: Film
2024 unit information
This unit of study is only available to students approved to be participating in the NYU Sydney Program.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Arts and Social Sciences
| Code | NYUS3102 |
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| Academic unit | Arts and Social Sciences |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Apply the basic vocabulary of film form
- LO2. Grasp the mechanics of structuring a written argument about a film’s meaning
- LO3. Engage with different approaches to thinking and writing about cinema and film
- LO4. Act upon their viewing position and their application of interpretive strategies to films from diverse historical and cultural contexts
- LO5. Utilise a critical vocabulary for analysing representations of the relationship between the past and the present on film
- LO6. Critically analyse the ways that representations of the past shape and are shaped by their historical, political and cultural contexts
- LO7. Research and investigate aspects of the Australian cinema and communicate their findings in a coherent, well-structured written form
- LO8. Situate contemporary Australian cinema in its national, regional and international contexts
Unit availability
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Semester 1 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney | |
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Semester 2 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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Modes of attendance (MoA)
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