Summer & Continuing Studies 2013

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ENG 27b - Classic Hollywood Cinema

4 credit hours
Instructor: William Flesch
Requirements Fulfilled: hum
M, T, Th 11:00 AM - 01:20 PM

Summer Session I: June 3 to July 5, 2013
A critical examination of the history of mainstream U.S. cinema from the 1930's to the present. This course focuses on major developments in film content and form, the rise and fall of the studio and star system, the changing nature of spectatorship, and the social context of film production and reception.
Sage class number: 2057
Course Tuition: $2,320 plus a nonrefundable once per summer $50 registration fee

ENG 33a - Shakespeare

4 credit hours
Instructor: William Flesch
Requirements Fulfilled: hum
M, T, Th 08:30 - 10:50 AM

Summer Session I: June 3 to July 5, 2013
This course provides a survey of Shakespeare as a dramatist. Students will read between several plays, representing all periods of Shakespeare's dramatic career.
Sage class number: 2058
Course Tuition: $2,320 plus a nonrefundable once per summer $50 registration fee

ENG 79a - Directed Writing: Beginning Screenwriting

4 credit hours
Instructor: Marc Weinberg
Requirements Fulfilled: wi, hum
M, T, Th 11:00 AM - 01:20 PM

Summer Session I: June 3 to July 5, 2013
This course may not be repeated by students who have taken ENG 129b in previous years. Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis. This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of screenwriting: structure, plot, conflict, character, and dialog. Students read screenwriting theory, scripts, analyze files, and produce an outline and the first act of an original screenplay. You can view a syllabus for this class here.
Sage class number: 2126
Course Tuition: $2,320 plus a nonrefundable once per summer $50 registration fee

ENG 180a - The Modern American Short Story

4 credit hours
Instructor: William Flesch
Requirements Fulfilled: hum
M, T, Th 08:30 - 10:50 AM

Summer Session II: July 8 to August 9, 2013
This course presents a close study of masterworks of American short fiction masterworks. Students read as writers write, discussing solutions to narrative obstacles and examining the consequences of alternate points of view. This course studies words and syntax to understand and articulate how technical decisions have moral and emotional weight.
Sage class number: 2086
Course Tuition: $2,320 plus a nonrefundable once per summer $50 registration fee

PHIL 6a - Introduction to Symbolic Logic

4 credit hours
Instructor: Matthias Jenny
Requirements Fulfilled: hum
M, T, Th 01:30 - 03:50 PM

Summer Session II: July 8 to August 9, 2013
Symbolic logic provides concepts and formal techniques that elucidate deductive reasoning. This course covers sentence logic and predicate logic. Topics include truth-functional connectives, quantifiers, validity, truth, validity, and proof.

This course fulfills requirements for philosophy majors and non-majors. It is also of interest to any students interested in critical thinking and logic, for example, those planning to take the LSAT. You can view a syllabus for this class here.
Sage class number: 2092
Course Tuition: $2,320 plus a nonrefundable once per summer $50 registration fee