Madness in Movies Coordinated Studies Class, North Seattle Community
College
Calendar of Due Dates
JC Clapp & Brian Holt
All quizzes due by 9:30 a.m. in the Canvas online classroom
All other assignments are due by 10:00 a.m. at the beginning of class
Tuesday
Week 1
Thursday
January 7, 2014
January 9, 2014
Receive Syllabus
Class Topics:
Psych: What is “normal” – what’s “insanity”?
Discuss “The Myth of Mental Illness”
Film: Narrative structure
Introduce Capstone Project
Seminar over American Beauty
Class Topics:
Psych: Discuss topic of Free Will, DSM 5
overview
Film: Orientation on how to read a film, themes
and motifs
Introductions
How to seminar
Miller’s Law
Buy the course packet -- you need it to do the
reading for Thursday
Due Today:
❒ Film: American Beauty (1999) Sam Mendes
❒ Seminar Paper #1: American Beauty
(motifs and sanity)
❒ Film Art Textbook: Chapter 3 (Narrative)
❒ Writing About Movies: Chapter 2 (Looking
at Movies)
❒ Writing About Movies: Become familiar
with “Shorthand Notation for Screenings,”
pgs. 253-256 (use it if you find it helpful)
❒ Psych Textbook: Chapter 1 and Chapter 3
❒ Course Packet: “The Myth of Mental
Illness,” by Thomas Szasz, American
Psychologist, 1960
❒ Bring a unofficial copy of your transcript
showing you’ve passed English 101
Week 2
January 14, 2014
January 16, 2014
Class Topics:
Psych: Anxiety Disorders (Phobias, Panic Attacks,
OCD, GAD)
Film: Film Form, conventions, expectations
Writing: Summary vs. Critique
How to work in groups
Class Topics:
Psych: Anxiety Disorders (Phobias, Panic Attacks,
OCD, GAD)
Film: Cultural analysis in film (representations of
race, class, gender, sexual orientation, historical
context)
Seminar over Matchstick Men
Due Today:
❒ Film Art Textbook: Chapter 1 (Film as
Art) & Chapter 2 (Film Form)
❒ Film Quiz #1 over Film Art: Chapters 1 &
2
❒ Psych Textbook: Chapter 4
❒ Psych Quiz #1: Anxiety
Week 3
Due Today:
❒ Film: Matchstick Men (2003) Ridley Scott
❒ Seminar Paper #2: Matchstick Men
(summary and critique)
❒ Writing About Movies: Chapter 3 (Analyzing
Film)
❒ Course Packet: DSM-5 Criteria Appendix
(see DSM-pages 202-242; 678-679)
January 21, 2014
January 23, 2014
Class Topics:
Psych: Dissociative Personality Disorder
(Multiple Personality)
Film: plot vs. story, narrative expectations, time,
narration, editing
Writing: PIE paragraph structure and integrating
examples -- when and how to summarize,
paraphrase, and quote
Class Topics:
Psych: Dissociative Personality Disorder (Multiple
Personality)
Film: Editing (continued)
11:00-12:00 Writing: Introduction to basic research
(with Aryana Bates, Librarian)
Writing: Rhetoric and argument (audience, tone,
purpose -- and basic parts of argument -- how to
take a position and argue it)
Seminar over Psycho
Due Today:
❒ Capstone Paper Film selected by today
-- ID Sheet due
❒ Film Art Textbook: Chapter 3 (Narrative)
and Chapter 6 (Editing)
❒ Film Quiz #2 over Film Art: Chapters 3
and 6 -- due by 9:30 a.m. in the Canvas
online classroom
❒ Course Packet: “Summary,
Paraphrase, and Quotation” and
“Handout: Using PIE (How to
Organize an Academic Essay)”
❒ Course Packet: DSM-5 Criteria Appendix
(see DSM-pages 292-297)
❒ Psych Textbook: Chapter 5
❒ Psych Quiz #2: Stress and related
disorders -- due by 9:30 am
Due Today:
❒ Film: Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
❒ Seminar Paper #3: Psycho (narrative
structure, editing, and representations of
gender)
❒ Writing About Movies: Chapter 1 (The
Challenges of Writing About Movies)
Week 4
January 28, 2014
January 30, 2014
Class Topics:
Psych: Mood Disorders (Depression/Suicide)
Discuss “Utilized Social Support and SelfEsteem”
How to close-read and annotate (getting
through tough reading)
Film: Cinematography
Writing: MLA Documentation, keeping track of
your research
Class Topics:
Psych: Mood Disorders (Depression/Suicide)
How to write an Empirical Report (Part 1 of
Capstone)
Seminar over The Hours
Due Today:
❒ Film Art Textbook: Chapter 5
(Cinematography)
❒ Film Quiz #3 over Film Art: Chapter 5
(Cinematography) -- due by 9:30 a.m.
❒ Course Packet: Kleiman & Riskind (2013)
Utilized Social Support and Self-esteem
[…]
❒ Course Packet: DSM-5 Criteria Appendix
(see DSM-pages 160-168)
❒ Psych Textbook: Chapter 6 & 7
❒ Psych Quiz #3: Disorders of Mood -- due
by 9:30 a.m.
Week 5
Due Today:
❒ Film: The Hours (2002) Stephen Daldry
❒ Seminar Paper #4: The Hours
(cinematography and depression)
❒ Writing About Movies: Become familiar
with Part III: Resources (“Illustrated
Glossary of Film Terms,” pg. 181)
❒ Course Packet: DSM-5 Criteria Appendix
(see DSM-pages 123-142)
February 4, 2014
February 6, 2014
Class Topics:
Psych: Eating Disorders
Film: Mise-en-scene
Class Topics:
Psych: Eating Disorders
Film: How to decide what to write about (coming
up with ideas)
Seminar over Girl, Interrupted
11:00-12:00 Writing: Getting deeper into research
(with Aryana Bates, Librarian)
Writing: Thesis statements -- making a claim
Due Today:
❒ Film Art Textbook: Chapter 4 (Mise-enscene)
❒ Film Quiz #4 over Film Art: Chapter 4
(Mise-en-scene)
❒ Course Packet: DSM-5 Criteria Appendix
(see DSM-pages 338-350)
❒ Psych Textbook: Chapter 9
❒ Psych Quiz #4: Eating Disorders
Due Today:
❒ Capstone Paper: Part 1 (Empirical Report)
due
❒ Film: Girl, Interrupted (1999) James
Mangold
❒ Seminar Paper #5: Girl, Interrupted (miseen-scene, making claims and finding
evidence)
❒ Writing About Movies: Chapter 4
(Generating Ideas)
Week 6
February 11, 2014
February 13, 2014
Class Topics:
Psych: Personality Disorders (Borderline)
Discuss “The Psychopathy Checklist Revised . . .”
Film: Objectivity vs. Subjectivity in film,
documentaries
Writing: Crash course in grammar and
punctuation (get those semicolons in the right
place!)
Class Topics:
Psych: Personality Disorders (Borderline)
Seminar Aileen and Monster
Film: Discuss how the two films represent Lee’s
mental illnesses differently
How to write Part 2 of Capstone
Due Today:
❒ Film Art Textbook: Chapter 10
(Documentary)
❒ Film Quiz #5 over Film Art: Chapter 10
(Documentary)
❒ Course Packet: Neuman, Hare, &
Johanson (2013) The Psychopathy
Checklist-Revised [...]
❒ Course Packet: DSM-5 Criteria Appendix
(see DSM-pages 646-666)
❒ Psych Textbook: Chapter 13
❒ Psych Quiz #5: Personality Disorders
Cluster C (Anxious)
Week 7
Due Today:
❒ Annotated Bibliography of Capstone
research sources due
❒ Films: Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial
Killer (2003) Nick Broomfield
Monster (2003) Patty Jenkins
❒ Seminar Paper #6: Aileen/Monster
(rhetorical stances)
❒ Writing About Movies: Chapter 5
(Researching Movies)
February 18, 2014
February 20, 2014
Class Topics:
Psych: Personality Disorders (Antisocial,
Narcissism)
Film: Cultural Analysis II (more historical context
and cultural studies information/approaches -how to situate your critical analysis)
Writing: Organizing your ideas -- transitions
Class Topics:
Psych: Personality Disorders (Antisocial, Narcissism)
Seminar on Silence of the Lambs
Writing: Thesis statements -- what to do for Part 4
of your Capstone (brainstorm now)
Due Today:
❒ Film Art Textbook: Film Art: Chapter 8
(Summary of Style/Form) and Chapter
11 (Critical Analysis)
❒ Film Quiz #6 over Film Art: Chapter 8
(Summary of Style/Form)
❒ Course Packet: Handout: How to
Write a Thesis Statement
❒ Psych Textbook: Chapter 13
❒ Psych Quiz #6: Personality Disorders
Cluster B (Dramatic)
Due Today:
❒ Capstone Paper: Part 2 (Analysis of
Disorder in the Film) due
❒ Film: Silence of the Lambs (1991) Jonathan
Demme
❒ Seminar Paper #7: Silence of the Lambs
(psychopathy and cultural analysis)
❒ Writing About Movies: Chapter 6
(Developing Your Thesis)
❒ Course Packet: DSM-5 Criteria Appendix
(see DSM-pages 669-670)
Week 8
Week 9
February 25, 2014
February 27, 2014
Class Topics:
Psych: Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Discuss “Neuropsychologial Functioning as a
Moderator”
Film: Genre studies
Writing: Workshop thesis statements -- write
your thesis on the board and be able to defend
it
Class Topics:
Psych: Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Discuss “Dual-Task Information Process in
Schizotypal Personality disorder”
Seminar on Taxi Driver
How to write Part 3 of Capstone
Due Today:
❒ Capstone Paper: Thesis Statement for
Part 4 due
❒ Film Art Textbook: Chapter 9 (Film
Genres)
❒ Film Quiz #7 over Film Art: Chapter 9
(Film Genres)
❒ Course Packet: Brekke, Kohrt, & Green
(2001) Neuropsychological Functioning
as a Moderator[...]
❒ Psych Textbook: Chapter 12
❒ Psych Quiz #7: Schizophrenia
Due Today:
❒ Film: Taxi Driver (1976) Martin Scorsese
❒ Online Reading: “Postmodern Antihero” by
Matthew J. Iannucci at
http://brightlightsfilm.com/47/taxi.php#.Ur
DYYdF3vIU (Read in order to complete
Seminar Paper #8)
❒ Seminar Paper #8: Taxi Driver (critical
analysis and genre )
❒ Course Packet: Harvey et al. (2006) DualTask Information Processing in Schizotypal
Personality disorder [...]
❒ Course Packet: DSM-5 Criteria Appendix
(see DSM-pages 87-88, 655-659)
March 4, 2014
March 6, 2014
Class Topics:
Psych: Schizophrenia
Writing: How to move from thesis to outline
(build!)
Let’s play catch-up, shall we? What do we need
to cover that we haven’t?
Class Topics:
Psych: Schizophrenia
Seminar over A Beautiful Mind
11:00-12:00 Writing: Thesis-specific research (with
Aryana Bates, Librarian)
Due Today:
❒ Film Art Textbook: Chapter 7 (Sound)
❒ Film Quiz #8 over Film Art: Chapter 7
(Sound)
❒ Course Packet: DSM-5 Criteria Appendix
(see DSM-pages 87-88, 99-105)
❒ Psych Textbook: Chapter 12 continued,
review Ch. 13
❒ Psych Quiz #8: Personality Disorders
Cluster A (Odd)
Due Today:
❒ Capstone Paper: Part 3 (How Disorder
Communicated in the FIlm) due
❒ Film: A Beautiful Mind (2001) Ron Howard
❒ Seminar Paper #9: A Beautiful Mind
(schizophrenia and social contexts)
❒ Writing About Movies: Chapter 7
(Considering Structure and Organization)
Week 10
Week 11
March 11, 2014
March 13, 2014
Class Topics:
Psych: PTSD, Stress
Film: Sound in the Cinema
Writing: Peer Review your outlines -- come to
class with our outline ready to go
Class Topics:
Psych: PTSD, Stress
Writing: Revision: how to do it and why it matters
Seminar over Saving Private Ryan
Due Today:
❒ Capstone Paper: Part 4 (Outline/Plan of
your paper)
❒ Course Packet: DSM-5 Criteria Appendix
(see DSM-pages 271-280)
❒ Psych Textbook: review Chapter 5 & 7
❒ Psych Quiz #9: Suicide
Due Today:
❒ Film: Saving Private Ryan (1998) Steven
Spielberg
❒ Seminar Paper #10: Saving Private Ryan
(sound)
❒ Writing About Movies: Chapters 8
(Attending to Style) and Chapter 9 (Revising
Your Work)
March 18, 2014
March 20, 2014
Class Topics:
Psych: Addiction, Sexual Disorders
Writing: Peer review your rough draft
Class Topics:
Course and Instructor Evaluations
Debrief
Potluck of Fun
Due Today:
❒ Capstone Paper: Part 4 (Rough Draft –
bring 3 copies to class)
❒ Psych Textbook: Possibly. Will be
assigned during week 8.
Due Today:
❒ Capstone Paper: Part 4 (Cultural Analysis
Essay) due
❒ Course Reflection Letter due