Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics

FOUN 1107 Writing in the Visual, Performing and Carnival Arts

 

Pre-requisite: Students must have one of the following in order to register for FOUN 1107:

• CXC English Language (General Proficiency) - Grade I
• GCE English Language - Distinction (Grade A or I or II)
• General Paper - Grade A or B
• CAPE Communication Studies - Grade I or II
• TOEFL (Minimum writing score of 22)
• UWIDEC/Open Campus Language and Communication – Grade B or above
• A Pass in the English Language Proficiency Test (ELPT)
• A Pass in FDMU 0005

Course Description:

This course introduces students to critically-needed language and analytical skills and written competencies in the disciplines associated with visual, performing and carnival arts and is highly recommended for students of film studies.  The emphasis will be placed on how to read dimensions of creative and festival arts and film studies insightfully and how to write critical analyses competently. Writing in the Visual, Performing and Carnival Arts is intended to guide students in developing strategies for logical analysis, critique, reflection and interpretation as well as to produce formal writing as they plan, research, draft and revise critical essays.  Writing in the Visual, Performing and Carnival Arts will make linkages with Level 1 courses offered in Film Studies and the Department of Creative and Festival Arts, so as to encourage students to engage and master tertiary level academic writing skills.

 

Writing in the Visual, Performing and Carnival Arts is specially geared towards improving the tertiary level written competencies and critical thinking skills of students engaged in disciplines associated with visual, performing and carnival arts.  It is compulsory for all B.A. students in the Department of Creative and Festival Arts and highly recommended for students whose major is Film Studies.

 

The aim of this course is to build students’ analytical and critical thinking skills and written competencies in subsets of academic writing most pertinent to visual, performing and carnival arts. These skills and competencies will be underpinned by sound research and documentation appropriate to tertiary level studies.

 

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

• Discuss the nature of academic writing in visual, performing and carnival arts
• Engage in reflective writing based on aspects of their art form
• Produce summaries of researched information within specific performing arts
• Compile an annotated bibliography dealing with a specific topic based on their chosen discipline
• Write a critique of a performance, exhibition or film attended
• Produce well researched writing based on the approved MLA documentation format
• Differentiate between formal and informal English used in oral and written contexts of   performing arts
• Utilize mechanical and other language skills pertinent to formal academic writing in the performing arts
• Plan, write, revise and edit a formal comparison and contrast essay related to specific phenomena in the performing arts.