<p>What is the level of difficulty of this class? What do you do in the class? How is it compared to other R1A classes? Thanks!</p>
<p>I'm interested in taking this class to fulfill my R&C requirement... so BUMP</p>
<p>Depends on the instructor. You watch films, write about films, read about films and film theory, maybe a style book on how to write compositions. Compared to other R1a classes, I think it focuses far more on film- difficulty depends on you and the instructor. Most don't write about the visual, so some might have a hard time gaining this skill. The department tends to be less intense than say English and comp lit. The ultimate difficulty depends on the instructor. I'd say take it if it interests you, and the course selection reading/watching list interests you.</p>
<p>Just pray you don't get a bait-and-switch feminazi like I did. OY! I'm still traumatized! O.O Actually, I understand things like Film R1A and German/Scandinavian R5A are more fun that the traditional English Lit and Comp Lit classes. What I don't get, is why so few sections in the aforementioned departments don't teach more great works (Like Shakespeare, Melville, and Fitzgerald), choosing to teach more... erm, let's say books that feed into popular contempary discussions? In my comp lit class, we had this one book, that was about a gender-confused transexual kiddy molestation victim or something... now what this had to do with immigration (That was the class topic)... I will never know.</p>
<p>I think that some of the Eng and comp lit classes use very historically important works, most often Shakespeare, but why more don't, I don't know. Perhaps they're trying to make it more relevant to today, more interesting for the kids, get something they probably haven't read. If you want something that is purely older texts, you can probably find it, at least I felt that I could.</p>