FILM 200 Latin American Film

As a historical survey of Latin American cinema, this course shows the interconnection between artistic expression and the historical, social, and cultural realities within Latin America from the 1900s to the present.

Credits

3

Hours Weekly

3 hours weekly

Course Objectives

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

Course Objectives

1. Identify and organize information and ideas related to enduring and contemporary issues in Latin American 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 the ability to generate, explore, and consider a wide range and number of ideas, possibilities, and alternatives of various aspects of Latin American film.

   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 Latin American 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 Latin American 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