HUMN 141: Film & Culture

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Class Program

Humanities

Credits

Clinical Hours None

Weekly Contact Hours

Course ID

091115

Meets Degree Requirements For

Humanities

Description

A study of the elements of film structure and content for analysis and understanding of the human experience. Through critical viewing, thinking, and writing, students will gain a basis for understanding how cultural themes and values are expressed in film.

Grading Basis

Graded

Course Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate intellectual curiosity toward film studies and devise strategies for independent inquiry about cinema as an art form.

Recognize the aesthetic and formal qualities of cinema.

Demonstrate critical thinking about film studies by synthesizing information from multiple sources.

Analyze films from historical, cultural, artistic, and theoretical perspectives.

Demonstrate reflective and metacognitive thinking about cinema and its relationship to the humanities.

Core Topics

The history, historical context, and cultural influence of major technological developments in the production, distribution, and exhibition of films.
The history, historical context, and cultural influence of the significant aesthetic movements in the development of film as an art form.
The major formal elements of cinema, such as mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and sound.
The theories of film studies and criticism and the way they inform the perception role that films play in our culture.