INDIAN CINEMA IN THE U.S. AND BEYOND

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Civics & Perspectives Ethnic St - Ethnic Studies Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2023 Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically examine the representational nuances, ideological underpinnings and political rhetoric underlying South Asian Diaspora media texts. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Examine the aesthetic, contextual and historical framings of media artifacts to understand how it shapes conversations on ethnicity, race and diversity. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze the varying patterns of desire, labor and agential assertions that mark film and media forms and practices to understand how it hinders production and positionality. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Demonstrate how film and media can provide us with conceptual grounds to understand the larger social realities that govern representational politics and media production practices. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Critically examine how postcoloniality has been used as a frame of reference in film and media studies. Audience: Graduate 6. Examine how power, identity and representations shape diasporic media and its pursuit of an audience. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Encourage participation in the multi-cultural context by offering ways to engage with media material to understand how past the has shaped present day circumstances, perceptions of, and disparities in race in the U.S. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 8. Recognize and question cultural assumptions, rules, biases, and knowledge claims as they relate to race and ethnicity. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 9. Apply course concepts to their lives outside classroom by demonstrating self-awareness and empathy towards the cultural perspectives and worldviews of others. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically examine the representational nuances, ideological underpinnings and political rhetoric underlying South Asian Diaspora media texts. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Examine the aesthetic, contextual and historical framings of media artifacts to understand how it shapes conversations on ethnicity, race and diversity. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze the varying patterns of desire, labor and agential assertions that mark film and media forms and practices to understand how it hinders production and positionality. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Demonstrate how film and media can provide us with conceptual grounds to understand the larger social realities that govern representational politics and media production practices. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Critically examine how postcoloniality has been used as a frame of reference in film and media studies. Audience: Graduate 6. Examine how power, identity and representations shape diasporic media and its pursuit of an audience. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Encourage participation in the multi-cultural context by offering ways to engage with media material to understand how past the has shaped present day circumstances, perceptions of, and disparities in race in the U.S. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 8. Recognize and question cultural assumptions, rules, biases, and knowledge claims as they relate to race and ethnicity. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 9. Apply course concepts to their lives outside classroom by demonstrating self-awareness and empathy towards the cultural perspectives and worldviews of others. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad