Educational guide 2015_16 Faculty of Arts

Methodologies

	Description
Introductory activities	Preliminary discussion will outline the contents and methodology of the class, and will ascertain the students' level of previous knowledge of the subject, through discussion and exercises.
Lecture	Lectures will cover the topics in each subsection of the prescribed text, "Ways of Reading", and will form the theoretical input of the course. A final section will cover basic film theory, which is not covered in the set text.
Seminars	Seminars (practical classes) will encourage group discussion of the specified text, and will allow students to practice the analysis of example texts, along the theoretical lines proposed in the theory classes. In order to participate fully, students must come to the seminars already familiar with the text under consideration. Texts to be discussed will be announced in the Course Timetable (available on Moodle)
Assignments	Students will be asked to present written assignments, which may be required to be written in class, on a specific day, or at home. Each assignment will be about a specific texts, or part thereof, and will allow the student to show their ability to apply the theory presented in the lecture to the practical analysis of texts.
Personal tuition	Students will be required to come to the tutor's office at specified times in order to receive personalized feedback on their assignments and course work in general.