Faculty First Year Seminars 191FILM1 - Cinema as Window on the World

This seminar offers an overview of the field of film studies. It focuses particular attention on the ways films communicate across national and cultural boundaries while at the same time being distinctive cultural expressions. We will look at a selection of representative films of world cinema and consider how the discipline of film studies utilizes interdisciplinary approaches to interpret and understand films as cultural, historical, commercial, and artistic products. Students will stream the movies on their own from the course Moodle page, and the weekly meeting will be devoted to discussion. We will also explore such questions as why one might consider a career in the film industry; how one might best prepare for such a career; and how the discipline of film studies can prepare one to excel in other fields of study and professions.

Freshmen Only