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Courses with Costa Ricans at Veritas University - Winter 3 2009
History of Film II

60
Language Level: High Advanced
History of Film II [CTV 204]
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Course taken with: Primarily Local Students
Veritas University (San José, Costa Rica)

Course Description

Area of Study

Courses with Locals

Hours & Credits

60

Hours of Instruction

4

Semester Credit Units

6

Quarter Credit Units

Prerequisites and Language Level

High Advanced
Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of five semesters (or seven quarters) of college-level Spanish at their home university in the U.S.

Overview

This course focuses on the elements of cinematographic language developed during
the twentieth century such as the incorporation of sound with digital and special
effects. Student will learn to recognize the phenomena of film as a result of social,
aesthetic, and economic relations through the formal and reflexive analysis of
paradigmatic examples of large European and American productions.