GLOBAL EDUCATION THROUGH FILM
Introduces global educational issues, policies, and practices through films. Considers education in context, thinking critically about the role of education in the world. Compares across issues, places, policies, and practices. Examines the diversity of global educational spaces and practices, both in and out the classroom, and the purposes of education in society, including how political socialization, economic development, social mobility, and social solidarity are often in conflict.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the diversity of education and educational practices, in and beyond formal classroom spaces, and in different parts of the world. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Demonstrate an understanding of education as it shapes and is shaped by social, cultural, and historical contexts and relationships (indigeneity, community, race, gender, religion, geography, poverty, class, etc.). Audience: Undergraduate 3. Compare their own educational experiences and aspirations to educational processes and practices in other spaces, places, and times. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Employ various approaches to interpreting film. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate an appreciation of the complexities of the interpretative process within historical and cultural contexts. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Apply critical approaches to the works and alternative ways of considering them. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the diversity of education and educational practices, in and beyond formal classroom spaces, and in different parts of the world. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Demonstrate an understanding of education as it shapes and is shaped by social, cultural, and historical contexts and relationships (indigeneity, community, race, gender, religion, geography, poverty, class, etc.). Audience: Undergraduate 3. Compare their own educational experiences and aspirations to educational processes and practices in other spaces, places, and times. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Employ various approaches to interpreting film. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate an appreciation of the complexities of the interpretative process within historical and cultural contexts. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Apply critical approaches to the works and alternative ways of considering them. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027