Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete the Film and Digital Technology major will be able to:
- examine constructions of self and other as they have been perpetuated socially, historically and textually
- identify the particular experiences of one or more cultural groups
- describe theoretical paradigms for studying culture, such as colonization, institutional racism, intraracism, ethnocentrism and passing
- synthesize and apply theoretical concepts to cultural texts, including literature, film, media and public spaces
- write insightful journal entries and homework assignments on various Cultural Studies topics
- write 3-4 page formal papers on questions assigned by professor
- write longer essays on self designed topics
- generate a thesis and sustain an argument by using secondary sources and criticism relevant to topic
- develop knowledge of terms of cultural analysis
- apply terms of cultural analysis to primary texts
- apply terms of cultural analysis to primary texts in the service of a coherent argument
- apply terms of cultural analysis in conjunction with cultural theory in the service of a coherent argument
- recognize standard cultural representations and their role in creating societal truths and norms
- historicize representations of one or more cultural groups
- identify overt and inferential representations of cultural groups in varied textual expressions
- articulate the relationship between cultural representation and material practices
- frame a research question
- locate and evaluate scholarly sources
- evaluate theoretical positions of sources
- articulate views in class
- give informal presentation of critical positions
- give formal presentation of critical positions
- present and defend own critical position in formal arenas