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Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Office: 265 Bessey Hall Office Hours: Mondays 1 -2 and by appointment Email: [email protected] This course is an introduction to the study of docu*entary film. Through a combination of watching docu*entary films and reading The course is designed to provide you with a strong intellectual basis with which to engage with docu*entary films as a scholar, audience member, and filmmaker (if you choose to make docu*entaries yourself). Publisher: Indiana University Press; Second Edition (December 7, 2010)   We will watch films in clas* every Monday. If you are unable to be present for screenings, you will be responsible for watching the films preview for or a short scene from a docu*entary we are not watching in clas* and by discussing three of its filmmaking elements AN*LYTICAL ESSAY (30%) In this 5-6 page (1,500-1,800 words) essay, you will choose one film we have watched in clas* and using two of our readings, as well as two outside sources, you’ll an*lyze the piece’s arguments or craft. In pairs, you will create a 3-5 minute podcast in which you use narration and sound recordings from two of the docu*entaries we’ve watched this semester in order to make arguments about the ways in which these films portray gender, race, se*uality, clas*, ability, or nationality. You will need to cite two sources we have read in clas*, as well as two outside sources. We will learn how to use Audacity in For almost every Tuesday clas* period I will as*ign readings. You will not succeed in this course if you don’t keep up with the readings. Watching the films with your peers is just as important.   READING QUIZZES (10%) Quizzes will take place at the beginning of each clas* for which readings have been as*igned. The questions will be easy to answer if you do the readings and pay attention to the points the authors are making. Quizzes will be worth one point each. You will start the semester with 10 points. If you don’t miss any quizzes, you will