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| Course ID: | HIST 4750/6750. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History and Film | Course
Description: | We are living in a post-literate age. Most people now get their history from films instead of books. How film, using a different vocabulary than that of books, recreates the past. | | Oasis Title: | HISTORY AND FILM | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | Course Objectives: | 1. read a wide range of primary and secondary sources critically.
2. polish skills in critical thinking, including the ability to recognize the
difference between opinion and evidence, and the ability to evaluate--and support or
refute--arguments effectively.
3. write stylistically appropriate and mature papers and essays using processes
that include discovering ideas and evidence, organizing that material, and revising,
editing, and polishing the finished papers. | | Topical Outline: | I How to Study Film as History
II Background
III Paris: the Eternal City?
IV Modernization
V France in Revolution
VI Decolonization and Immigration
(varies according to instructor; this is a sample) | |
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