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May 15, 2024
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Catalog 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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HUM 110 Introduction to Film 5 credits
This course educates the student to analyze and comprehend film as a storytelling medium and appreciate its value as literary and cinematic art. Approaches may include examination of cinematic technique, genre, historic context, narrative structure, archetypal sources, and/or other perspectives that enlighten the viewer and enhance insight on the medium.
Prerequisites: ABED 046
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of the historical development of the medium
- Relate films to their cultural heritage and historic context
- Analyze and express a comprehension of how aesthetic elements, including mise-en-scene, genre, narrative structure, directing, editing, and cinematography, etc., contribute to creating film meaning
- Write thought-provoking critical analyses about films using accurate and appropriate vocabulary of cinematic terms and acknowledging recognized approaches to film study
Total Hours: 50 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 50
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HUM 215 Diversity and Social Justice in America 5 credits
This course will engage students in an extended analysis of diversity and social justice in the United States with the aim of exploring current realities of race and social class and their relationship to power and privilege. Students will develop and strengthen awareness and understanding of how power, privilege, and inequity are reinforced and challenged at individual, institutional, and systemic levels.
Prerequisites: ENGL& 101 (pre or corequisite).
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Define and apply key terms and concepts of diversity and social justice
- Discuss and analyze how categories of difference are created, maintained, and experienced through power, privilege, and inequity
- Communicate one’s own intersecting identities of difference and how they position oneself in relation to power, privilege, and inequity
- Identify how power, privilege, and inequity are reinforced and challenged at individual, institutional, and systemic levels
- Engage in intentional communication with awareness of intent and impact
- Recognize stereotypes in self and others and their relationship to micro aggressions
- Explain different types of knowledge and how knowledge construction maintains power, privilege, and inequity
- Identify specific ways of becoming an ally in order to disrupt power, privilege, and inequity
Total Hours: 50 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 50
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