MLL 225 - Transcultural Franco-Phone Cinema

Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-3B
A study and analysis of aesthetic, socio-political, and philosophical concerns presented in the films from diverse cultures. To critically assess cultural, socio-political, historical, and aesthetic aspects of the cinematic productions while investigating the issues of ‘multiculturalism’, ‘diversity’, and ‘transculturation’.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-3B - Arts and Humanities (Humanities)
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Students will be able to express themselves with a fair amount of sophistication, integrating research information while giving adequate credit to the sources used.
Students will be able to effectively discuss, analyze, and write about, issues concerning various cultures from the Franco-Phone world, and their historical, political, philosophical and socio-cultural contexts.
Students will be able to demonstrate that they have acquired the knowledge of ethnic cultural diversity, and their intersectionality with other forms of diversity such as gender, and race.
Students will be able to formulate issues of equity and social justice, identify and critically assess social, cultural, historical, political barriers to such goals, in the Franco-Phone world.

5. Students will be able to effectively integrate the historical, and
socio-cultural backgrounds in their analysis of the films studied while
also analyzing the aesthetic and cinematic techniques of said films.

GE-3B. Humanities Learning Outcomes

Evaluate the impact of the humanities on your life.
Examine the cultural and/or historical context(s) of the humanities.
Describe the ways that diverse identities influence experiences in the humanities.