Hi Aaron, I find that students tend not to show up for screenings outside of regular lecture or tutorial times even if they've been told it's compulary, so I tend to show just a few things in tutes. I guess if you enforced the attendance by penalising them in grades for not showing up for a screening it may work for the rest of the screenings, I don't know, but even for screenings in regular tute times where I took a roll, there was poor attendance. I wonder if making the screening evenings more social with coffee and snacks and maybe going to dinner or something afterwards would get better attendance. Good luck, Becky "Delwiche, Aaron" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Hi, I'm putting the finishing touches on a syllabus for an introductory film studies course. According to the university course bulletin, students are expected to attend weekly film viewing sessions on Tuesday evenings. What policies have other instructors adopted with respect to mandatory film viewings? Do you take roll during viewing sessions? Do you force students to attend the viewing sessions, or are they allowed to watch the films at their own leisure? Do you require students to attend a certain percentage of evening sessions? I would be grateful for any thoughts from other instructors who teach courses with a film component. What approaches have you found to be successful? What approaches have not worked? Thanks, Aaron ________________________________ From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List on behalf of Ying Zhu Sent: Sun 8/21/2005 12:23 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [SCREEN-L] new book on Chinese Television Drama Qu Chunjin & Ying Zhu (eds), "Television Drama: Chinese and US Perspectives" (Shanghai: Shanlian Press, 2005) For those of you who are interested in research on Chinese teleivison drama and can access books written in Chinese, the first academic book on Chinese TV drama came out in China early this summer. The volume "Television Drama: Chinese and US Perspectives" was co-edited by Chunjin Qu (China) and Ying Zhu (US). With a foreword from Robert Allen and contributions from leading television scholars in China, the US, and Asustralia, this landmark volume witnesses a serious attempt to spotlight the significance of television drama as a narrative form, social discourse and commerce in China within a framework of comparative study that foregrounds the similarities and differences between TV drama and the study of TV drama in the PRC and the US. ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org