3.00 Credits
Fulfills a Fine Arts General Education requirement. Analyzes issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality in culture as represented in film. Film technique and aesthetics, the relations between film and other arts, and the relations between film, history, and ideology will be examined. Student experiences include textbook study, film viewing, group projects, class discussion and written assignments. Upper-division university level reading, writing, and discussion required. Willingness to engage in sensitive and challenging subject matter essential to success in the course. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Develop an understanding of narrative film as the creative expression of social and personal contexts, perspectives, and experiences. 2. Develop an expanded awareness of diverse life experiences and perspectives as expressed through film. 3. Analyze and discuss diverse life experiences (as expressed through film) with focus on the experience of race and ethnicity, social class, gender, sexuality, religion, and abledeness. 4. Analyze selected films as both aesthetic creation and socio-political expression, examining the relationship between artistic technique and thematic content. 5. Analyze how film, as an artistic medium, may both reflect and inform attitudes about social diversity. 6. Develop an understanding of cultural history as an ongoing process, subject to changing social attitudes and discoveries. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2010A. SP, SU