Course Code: BFMP 2003
Academic Year: 2025-2026
Those who work in film and media need to be lifelong learners who can locate, summarize, cite, synthesize, and communicate journalistic and peer-reviewed scholarly sources as they craft their projects. In this course, students develop critical reading and analytic skills through paraphrasing and summarizing, practice effective written communication through analyzing and producing persuasive texts, select accurate APA style when citing sources, and learn techniques for academic research by producing a final argumentative research paper and poster. Students read and analyze non-fiction film and media works from a variety of sources focusing on issues of representation, violence and commercialization in media, and the impact of media on society.