Undergraduate Course: The Sound of Film (LLLG07060)

Course Outline
School	School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	Comparatively under-explored in the area of film studies, sound and music is a crucial part of the film-viewing experience. Through the works of filmmakers such as Hitchcock, Lynch, Malick,Bresson,Scorsese and Tarkovsky and composers such as Steiner, Hermann and Morricone, the course will examine the use of sound and music in the cinema from the pre-sound era to the present.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: 16
Course Start	Lifelong Learning - Session 3
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 78 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	The assessment is a 2000 word essay, worth 100% of the total mark.
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Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to: - Understand the importance of sound and music in the cinema from as early as the pre-sound era (1894 - 1926). - Understand and appreciate the importance certain directors, no matter how aesthetically diverse, place on sound and music - Understand the role of film composer in the film-making process through study of key director-composer collaborations