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.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students: Additional research and/or paper(s) are normally required for graduate level coursework.
Athena Title
History and Film
Prerequisite
Any HIST course or ENGL 1101 or ENGL 1101E or ENGL 1101S or ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1102S or POLS 1101 or POLS 1101E or POLS 1101H or POLS 1101S
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to arrive at conclusions about the depiction of historical events and experience in film gathering and weighing evidence, logical argument, and listening to counter argument.
By the end of this course, students will be able to write stylistically appropriate papers and essays. Students will be able to analyze ideas and evidence, organize their thoughts, and revise and edit their finished essays.
By the end of this course, students will be able to identify how film has shaped diverse social and cultural attitudes toward history, including racial and ethnic identity and relations, ethics and morality, and gender and sexuality, and encouraging them to understand diverse worldviews and experiences.
By the end of this course, students will be able to apply appropriate historical methodological approaches to their analysis of film and to organize their evidence to show historical continuities and discontinuities.
By the end of this course, students will be able to initiate, manage, complete, and evaluate their independent research projects in stages and to give and receive constructive feedback through the peer review process.
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)
Institutional Competencies Learning Outcomes
Analytical Thinking
The ability to reason, interpret, analyze, and solve problems from a wide array of authentic contexts.
Communication
The ability to effectively develop, express, and exchange ideas in written, oral, interpersonal, or visual form.
Critical Thinking
The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.
