Wp1110 Unit 9 Final Paper

Course Description
Course Rationale & Objectives: WP1212 will help you further improve the academic writing, reading and critical thinking skills that you acquired in WP1010 and WP1111. In addition, WP1212 will prepare you for the discipline-based work you will be doing in your majors through the study of texts written in a variety of styles. The course is separated into two parts: the first part will explore ways of reading diverse texts and the second part will promote your research and writing skills. You will be exposed to texts from various sources (academic journals, newspaper articles, commentaries) which often present the reader with conflicting points of view on the same topic. You will also engage with a variety of methods regarding preparing, outlining and researching a project. Using techniques as diverse as individual presentations, group work and role-play, the course aims to offer you a unique learning experience which will provide you with all the necessary tools for your assignments. The material you gather for your group and/or individual presentations will be uploaded, together with your word-processed annotations, on Blackboard, so you can share your
What makes us feel horror in contemporary culture? What are the modern traits of monstrosity? How does aesthetic horror re-define itself in political and social terrors? We shall base our seminars on the reading of academic texts from various disciplines and of two films that re-defined the horror genre: the ultimate zombie-film The Night of the Living Dead by George Romero (1968) and Funny Games US by Michael Haneke (2007) which offers a radical critique on mediated representations of horror. Through the close reading of articles and the two films, we shall explore the many facets of horror and discover the common ‘ingredients’ of the horrifying experience in art, politics, sociology and