HIGH POINT, N.C., Aug. 20, 2009 ? Dr. Richard Parker, chair of the Department of Marketing, Home Furnishings and Design at High Point University, recently published an article in the “Academy of Educational Leadership Journal.”
The article, titled “Watch This Clip: Using Film as an Augmentation to Lecture and Class Discussion,” details his research with students in the classroom.
“My initial research shows that students find that watching film clips makes some of the more difficult material easier to understand,” Parker explains. “I use scenes from popular movies such as ?Crimson Tide,? ?Wall Street? and ?12 Angry Men? to illustrate points from my lectures and to help clarify difficult or confusing course material with which the students may not be familiar. … This research is by no means conclusive, and I hope that it will serve as a starting point for other academics to do follow-on research.”
At High Point University, every student receives an extraordinary education in a fun environment with caring people. HPU, located in the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina, is a liberal arts institution with 3,700 undergraduate and graduate students from 50 countries and 44 states at campuses in High Point and Winston-Salem. It is ranked by US News and World Report No. 5 among comprehensive universities in the South and No. 1 in its category among up-and-coming schools. Forbes.com ranks HPU in the top 6 percent among “America’s Best Colleges.” HPU was included in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Great Colleges to Work For” 2009 listings. The university offers 68 undergraduate majors, 40 undergraduate minors and seven graduate degree programs. It is accredited by the Commission of Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and is a member of the NCAA, Division I and the Big South Conference. Visit High Point University on the Web at www.highpoint.edu.
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