FILM 172 Introduction to World Cinema

This course focuses on the thematic and technical concerns of international film. It is an overview of world cinema featuring films from various countries on a rotating basis.

Credits

3

Hours Weekly

3 hours weekly

Course Objectives

1. Identify and organize information and ideas related to enduring and contemporary issues in world cinema with a high degree of accuracy and appropriateness.
2. Demonstrate ability to generate, explore, and consider a wide range and number of ideas, possibilities, and alternatives of various aspects of international cinema.
3. Examine ideas or outcomes in significant depth and make distinguished judgments of social and cultural contexts in thematic and technical concerns of international film.
4. Demonstrate considerable intellectual agility in transferring knowledge or connecting disparate ideas within and across cultures, especially as related to international films.

Course Objectives

1. Identify and organize information and ideas related to enduring and contemporary issues in world cinema with a high degree of accuracy and appropriateness.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Critical and Creative Thinking Rubric

   Critical Thinking

   • CT1
2. Demonstrate ability to generate, explore, and consider a wide range and number of ideas, possibilities, and alternatives of various aspects of international cinema.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Critical and Creative Thinking Rubric

   Critical Thinking

   • CT2
3. Examine ideas or outcomes in significant depth and make distinguished judgments of social and cultural contexts in thematic and technical concerns of international film.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Critical and Creative Thinking Rubric

   Critical Thinking

   • CT3
4. Demonstrate considerable intellectual agility in transferring knowledge or connecting disparate ideas within and across cultures, especially as related to international films.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Exam

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Critical and Creative Thinking Rubric

   Critical Thinking

   • CT4

   Global Competency

   • GC4