ENGL 1301: Can You Feel the Love?

In this class, we will be considering how fiction has the power to teach us about human relationships, benefitting them on both a personal and social level. While watching film can broaden our perspectives and help us to become more empathetic, it can also teach us how to improve, evaluate, and reconsider our interpersonal relationships. In particular, film has the potential to demonstrate the power of all sorts of love, and in so doing helps people to enrich their interpersonal relationships, which in turn can improve society.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will…     

1 - Demonstrate knowledge of individual and collaborative writing processes.
2 - Develop ideas with appropriate support and attribution, following standard style guidelines in documenting sources.
3 - Write in a style appropriate to audience and purpose.
4 - Read, reflect, and respond critically to a variety of texts.
5 - Use edited American English in academic essays.

Core Objectives:

1. Critical Thinking Skills: To include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information
2. Communication Skills: To include effective written, oral, and visual communication
4. Personal Responsibility: To include the ability to connect choices, actions, and consequences to ethical decision-making