HUM 223: Final exam, blues videos

Please note correction in 2nd graf!

I haven't made out your final exam question yet, but it will heavily depend on the videos we screened this month in class and "Deep Blues" by Robert Palmer. I have made arrangements at SCI's Becker Library to have the DVDs put on reserve at the circulation desk, which I will do after class today (Thursday). In order to level the playing field, you'll have to watch it in the library so everybody gets an equal chance at it.

Final exam schedule for our class (cut-and-pasted from the schedule on line) is: 1:00p.m. TR ... December 2 [at] 1:30p.m. – 3:30p.m.Thursday, December 4 [at] 1:30p.m. – 3:30p.m.

I will hand out the final exam at our last class session, at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 25. It is a take-home exam, and it is due at the scheduled time and place -- in other words, at 1:30 p.m. Tiesdau. Dec. 2, in Dawson 220, our regular classroom. You can write it ahead of time and bring it in then, or you can write the exam in D220 during the scheduled time from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

You are responsible for the three videos we watched, which are part of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) series "The Blues directed by Martin Scorsese:

• "Feel Like Going Home" directed by Martin Scorsese.
  
• "Red, White and Blues directed by Mike Figgis.
  
• "Godfathers and Sons" directed by Marc Levine.

Note: If you follow the links above, they'll take you to webpages with a short blurb on each of the videos as well as links to remarks by the directors of each. They'll also show you how to spell the singers' names, so you can check your finals for spelling errors.

If you have questions, you can reach me most easily by email ... at SCI at pellertsen@sci.edu or at home at peterellertsen@yahoo.com.