Subject: FW: Upcoming Spring 2007 Registration Reminder: English 395-010: Progressive Film Festival Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 22:51:13 -0600 Message-ID: <BDD0A3EABE40F04A8C7200805EDE5A6A0488D74D@PEPSI.uwec.edu> From: "Nowlan, Robert A." <RANOWLAN@uwec.edu>
Friends, Eau Claire Staff and Faculty for Peace and Justice:
If you know of UWEC students who you think might well be interested
in this opportunity, and/or who might make a useful contribution to our
work on it, please encourage them to consider signing up for English
395-010: Progressive Film Festival, for the spring 2007 semester to help
develop, organize, and conduct our second annual Eau Claire Progressive
Film Festival.
Thanks so much.
Best,
Bob Nowlan
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From: Nowlan, Robert A.
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 10:48 PM
To: 'psa@listserve.uwec.edu'
Subject: Upcoming Spring 2007 Registration Reminder: English 395-010:
Progressive Film Festival
Greetings, Friends, UWEC Progressive Student Association:
I just want to remind people here to consider signing up for English
395, Section 010: Progressive Film Festival, for the Spring 2007
semester. Here's a full 'official' description of the course:
Students will work together with Professor Bob Nowlan, Festival
Director John Nicksic, and teams of fellow UWEC students to develop,
organize, and conduct a progressive film festival that will run for ten
days on the UWEC campus, Friday April 13 through Sunday April 22,
encompassing up to thirty sessions of film screenings and directed
discussions subsequent to these screenings. Students will also be
involved in arranging multiple supplementary and adjacent events for the
same period of time, from guest speakers and workshops to concerts,
readings, exhibits, and performances, to rallies, marches, vigils, and
actions. The festival will provide students working on this project the
opportunity to educate themselves as well as members of the campus and
surrounding local and regional communities on a broad range of
progressive social and political issues, as well on diverse issues in
independent and alternative varieties of film, video, and moving-image
culture production, distribution, exhibition, and reception. Students
can work in specific areas of particular interest as part of the overall
project and meeting times are highly flexible. No papers, exams,
tests, quizzes, reports, or other standard course work required.
If you are interested, we recommend you sign up for three credits, but,
if for one reason or another, it would work better for you to register
for 1 or 2 credits you may do either of those as well. Also, if you
prefer to work on this project as a way of meeting your UWEC service
learning expectation, that it also an option you can pursue as well.
And you can help us out even without working for course or service
learning credit if you wish to do so.
Even if you didn't have the chance to attend either of our initial
orientation meetings last month, you still are definitely most welcome
to sign up and join us in this effort. Please feel free to contact me,
or John Nicksic, with any questions. John, in particular, is ready,
eager, willing, and available to help fill you in and get you started:
nicksijs@uwec.edu <mailto:nicksijs@uwec.edu> (715) 855-3130
You will need to come by the English Department office (HHH 405) and
fill out a directed study form in order to have your permission to
enroll in the course typed into the system. This is a very easy
process, and a model form which you can follow will be available in the
English Department office starting tomorrow.
I hope a number of you beyond those who already are committed to working
with us will join up as well; work on the festival promises to be a
richly rewarding experience and lot of fun too.
All the Best,
Bob Nowlan
Associate Professor, English
Faculty Advisor, Progressive Student Association
Executive Director, Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival 2007
(715) 497-7506, ranowlan@uwec.edu