Course Catalog Information (24-25)
F/TV 2CH
Contemporary World Cinema - HONORS
Course Description
This course is a critical survey of contemporary world cinema as art, business, technology, and cultural artifact. It provides the critical methodology and practical tools for analyzing and interpreting the work of notable film artists, current international film movements and genres, and transnational and globalized media developments. The F/TV D2CWH course will cover expanded topics in historiography, such as problems and approaches to historical film research and analysis. Because this is an honors course, students will be expected to complete extra assignments to gain a deeper insight into world cinema today.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Identify significant contemporary films, filmmakers, genres and national cinemas and explain major trends in the international evolution of film as an art form, technology, and industry.
- Demonstrate the ability to analyze and synthesize the narrative, visual and aural language of film.
- Analyze representations of class, race/ethnicity, gender and sexuality, demonstrating an understanding of the politics of representation learned in class.
Course Details
- Units
- 4 Units
- Hours
- Weekly Lecture Hours: 4
- Weekly Lab Hours: 0
- Gen Ed
- General Education Class
- Program Status
- Program Applicable
- Credit
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Transferability
- Transferable to both UC and CSU
- Grading Method
- Letter Grading
Requisite and Advisory
- Advisory(ies)
- EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or ESL 5
- Prerequisite(s)
- Corequisite(s)
Limitations on Enrollment and Entrance Skills
- Limitation(s) on Enrollment
- Not open to students with credit in the non-Honors related course.
- Admission into this course requires consent of the Honors Program Coordinator.