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| Course ID: | CMLT 4640/6640. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | War in East Asian Film and Literature | Course
Description: | From World War II to the Korean War to the Cold War, modern East Asian history has been marked by wars. Course compares cinematic and literary representations to examine how the meanings of wars were reinforced and contested. Course considers how militarization shaped notions of East Asian masculinity and femininity. | | Oasis Title: | War in East Asian Film and Lit | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in CMLT 4640W | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | Course Objectives: | Students will develop skills in analyzing literature and films as cultural texts. Students will sharpen critical reading and writing skills. Students will learn about the culture of modern East Asia. | | Topical Outline: | The course will explore themes such as Contested Memories of the Asia-Pacific War, Aesthetics of Aggression, War Films as Mass Enlightenment Spectacles, Multiple Narrations of the Korean War, Cold War Melodramas, and Forgetting the Vietnam War.
The course will examine films ranging from historical films such as Piagol (Yi Kang-chon, 1955) and I Live in Fear (Akira Kurosawa, 1955) to contemporary blockbusters Steel Rain (Yang Woo-suk, 2017), as well as novels and short stories such as Eileen Chang’s Love in a Fallen City (1943), Hwang Sok-yong’s “Pagoda” (1970), Ch’oe Yun's “His Father’s Keeper” (1990), and Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman (1997). The course will equip students with analytical frameworks for understanding cultural representations of war by reading select critical writings on the social power of popular films, war and racism, and gender and memory politics. | |
| Course ID: | CMLT 4640W. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | War in East Asian Film and Literature |
Course
Description: | From World War II to the Korean War to the Cold War, modern East Asian history has been marked by wars. This course compares cinematic and literary representations to examine how the meanings of wars were reinforced and contested. Course considers how militarization shaped notions of East Asian masculinity and femininity. |
| Oasis Title: | War in East Asian Film and Lit |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in CMLT 4640, CMLT 6640 |
| Nontraditional Format: | The W suffix is used for courses taught as writing intensive, which means that the course includes substantial and ongoing writing assignments that a) facilitate learning; b) teach the communication values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument, evidence, credibility, and format; c) support writing as a process; and d) prepare students for further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and in professional life. Writing instruction and assignments are integral to the class’s learning objectives, and the instructor (and/or the teaching assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in supporting students as writers. More specifically, writing-intensive classes:
- involve students in informal writing assignments that promote course learning;
- stage and sequence assignments to encourage writing as a process of creating and communicating knowledge;
- maximize opportunities for guidance, feedback, and revision;
- teach the writing conventions that are inseparable from modes of inquiry in a discipline; and
- make writing a substantive component of the overall course grade to underscore the value of writing to the course, the discipline, and student learning. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | - Students will develop skills in analyzing literature and films as cultural texts.
- Students will learn about the culture of modern East Asia.
- Students will employ a process for writing that involves brainstorming, outlining, drafting, revising, and polishing.
- Students will gain practice composing arguments informed by evidence. |
| Topical Outline: | The following writing assignments will be assigned:
- Written responses to readings
- Project proposals
- Peer reviews |
Syllabus: No Syllabus Available
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