Course Instruction

504-KPA-03 – Cinema: The Seventh Art
LaSalle College – Winter 2006 – Present

This is an elective course for students in Hotel Management, Fashion Design and Food Services at LaSalle College. I designed the course to be an introduction to the study of film for students with no background in the field and with no intentions of further study therein.

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FMST 212 – Film Aesthetics
Concordia University – Summer Semesters 2006 - 2008

This is one of the core courses for all Film Studies majors in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University. It serves as an introduction to the analysis of film aesthetics.

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FMST 398K – Sound in Film
Concordia University – Fall 2002, Winter 2006

I designed this course in 2002 as an introduction film sound theory for students in both inside and out of film studies. I taught it for the second time in the winter of 2006.

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FMST 321/B – Studies in Film Directors
Concordia University - Fall/Winter 2004/05

This is one of the core courses for all majors in Film Studies and has been designed to expose students to the intensive study of the auteur through six blocks of four to five week sessions on individual filmmakers.

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Tutorial Instruction

FFAR 250 – The Visual and Performing Arts in Canada - Instructor: Robert Gifford
Concordia University - Fall/Winter 2001 - 2004, Summer 2004, Fall/Winter 2006 - 2008.

This is a mandatory course for all Fine Arts majors designed to expose students to cross-disciplinary modes of discourse and to create a forum for critical thinking on issues relevant to the visual and performing arts in Canada. One of the main goals of the course is to offer studio-based artists in single disciplines the opportunity to learn what goes on within other disciplines in the university, to engage in discussion with students and faculty in these other disciplines, and to get them thinking and writing critically about their own practice and its position within the larger context of the artistic community to which they belong. I will be doing the course for the sixth time during the 2007/08 academic year. My duties as tutorial instructor included:

• conducting weekly tutorials for two groups of 30 students
• giving lectures, fostering discussion, evaluating student presentations
• assisting in the design of the exams and essay assignments
• evaluating all work produced by the students in my tutorial sections

FFAR 289 – Theatre of the Senses – Instructor: R. Murray Schafer
Concordia University – Fall 2005

This was a rare course offered by renowned Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer designed to bring together Fine Arts students from a variety of disciplines and get them to collaborate on the design and execution of a theatre piece inspired by Schafer’s own work. My duties for this position included supervising tutorials, acting as assistant stage manager during the final performances, and evaluating all students in my sections.

Teaching Assistance

FMAN  – Animation Sound – Rosemary Mountain
Concordia University – Fall 2008

This is a combined theory/production course on sound for animated film offered as an elective within the Film Animation program.  My duties for this course included lecturing on film sound theory and assisting students with their production-based assignments, including practical training in sound recording and mixing.

FMST 200 – Intro to Film Studies - Instructor: Dr. Dave Douglas
Concordia University - Fall/Winter 2001/02

This is Concordia’s entry-level Film Studies course and is a mandatory pre-requisite for all Film Studies majors. My duties as teaching assistant included assisting in the design of the exams, grading half of all assignments for the course, and giving three lectures over the course of the term.