Welcome to Film, Art, and Literature

Welcome

Welcome to Film, Art, and Literature, Film 2010, an online course offered at Illinois Valley Community College. This course uses the Internet as a classroom, enabling students to participate as befits their own schedules. There are deadlines for the coursework, but there is no fixed meeting time for class sessions, just as there is no fixed place for class meetings. Everything you will need to complete this course is contained within you, your computer, your bookshelf--and your VCR and Video rental store.

The content and course work for this class is the same as if it were being taught on campus, but because of the difference in its delivery, it may be slightly more time intensive than a regular "meet-in-the classroom" course; however, with this course you will have a greater ability to tailor the time requirements to your own schedule. As with other college classes, you should be able to invest about three hours per credit hour a week in completing the assignments and readings. This means for this class you can expect to spend about nine hours per week on the coursework.

Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia in Zeffirelli's Hamlet (1990)

W. G. Simmonds's The Drowning of Ophelia (1910)

This course is not an introduction to computers, rather it assumes you already have some knowledge of using word processing, e-mail, and Internet web-browsers (like Netscape or Explorer). This course is not a correspondence course, either. It requires interaction with both the instructor and other students on a regular basis Students who would do well with non-traditional delivery method are likely to be highly motivated, responsible, and self-disciplined. The Getting Started page of Illinois Virtual Campus and the Student Safari can help you decide if an online course is right for you.

Once you have determined the course is right for you, please register and then send me an e-mail introducing yourself. My address is Kimberly_Radek@ivcc.edu . I will respond to these beginning 10 January 2002.