Impressions of the course:
I think I have a pretty positive outlook on N.C.T. as a subject. I can definitely say that my friends were a little bit jealous that my lectures consisted of movies and YouTube videos.
I really did learn a lot throughout the semester, and the subject bordered on being my favourite.
While at first I thought it was a bit random that we were being marked on our ability to blog and retain information about (what I thought was) a somewhat dodgy French new wave film, the concept of the course eventually came together.
I liked that the course is fairly contemporary - no, incredibly contemporary, actually. It constantly held my interest, and I was genuinely keen on doing the tutorial tasks (except maybe the Microsoft Word & Excel ones).
The only downfall of the course ishow much information I think is crammed into the end of semester test. While a lot of it is relevant, it just seems a bit much to have to basically read a whole textbook and 40 pages of lecture notes, knowing that you could be asked about anything in them.
Overall, I think the tutes & lectures were super helpful, and I always felt like I was learning something...apart from those moments when watching Existenz, Primer, and Alphaville where I felt utterly and completely lost :S but I think thats mainly due to my inability to enjoy cyberpunk and science fiction; they're not exactly my favourite genres of film.
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