St. Cloud State University
General Education Goal Area 5
History and the Social & Behavioral Sciences
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Response Date:
Effective Date:
1.
Proposal Number:
Prepared by:Chris Jordan
Phone: 308-6679
Email:cjjordan@stcloudstate.edu
2.
Requesting Unit:Film Studies
3.
Department, Course Number, Title:TFSD, FS 175 - Film and Culture
4.
New Course
5.
Will this course be flagged as a diversity course?
Already Designated as Diversity
Existing Course
No
Diversity Proposal Accompanying This Form
6.
Will this course also satisfy another General Education Goal Area?
If “Yes” specify which goal area.
Goal Area 6
No
7.
Coursebulletin description, including credits and semesters to be offered:
Movies as art, market products, and cultural artifacts. 3 cr F,S
Yes
8.
Indicate the clientele for whom this course is designed. Is the course for general education only, or
does it fulfill general education and other program needs for this or another department? Obtain
signatures from any affected departments.
Undergraduate general education. Also satisfies requirement for Film Studies major and serves as
recruiting tool for Film Studies major.
9.
Indicate any changes that must be made in offerings or resources in your department or other
departments by offering this course.
None
10.
For new courses or courses not yet approved for General Education, indicate any other SCSU departments
orunits offering instruction that relates to the content of the proposed course.
None
11.
Courses designated as General Education are included in the assessment plan for the Goal Area(s)
for which they are approved. Courses for which assessment is not included in the annual GE
assessment report for two years will be removed from the General Education Program.
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The Requesting Unit understands and recognizes the above conditions.
12.
Provide a concise explanation of how the following goal is a “significant focus” of the proposed course.
Goal Area 5: History and the Social & Behavioral Sciences
Develop understanding of human societies and behaviors, and of the concepts, theories, and methods of
history and the social sciences.
Students learn how Hollywood movies dramatize American identity on the basis of social norms,
collective beliefs, and cultural institutions. As a historical survey, the course situates movies within the
contexts of Hollywood's evolving industrial structure and changing historical circumstances. Students also
learn how movies as primary texts use particular story structures and stars dramatize social beliefs and
how the treatment of these beliefs evolves over time.
13. In order for a course to be designated as fulfilling Goal Area 5, it must address at least 4 of the 5 student learning
outcomes (SLOs) below. Check the SLOs below that are focused on in the proposed general education course.
1. Describe or use the methods and data by which historians, social scientists, or behavioral scientists investigate
human conditions.
2. Analyze human behavior, cultures, and social institutions and processes from the perspectives of history or the
social and behavioral sciences.
3. Develop explanations for and explore solutions to historical or contemporary social problems.
4. Reflect upon themselves in relation to family, communities, society, culture, and/or their histories.
5. Apply and critique alternative explanatory systems or theories about human societies and behaviors.
14.
Discuss how each Student Learning Outcome checked above is achieved in this course. (Note: Although
descriptions of typical assignments or types of assignments may be part of this discussion, it is not
appropriate to submit copies of actual assignments.)
2) Students analyze, research, and write about key Hollywood films in terms of their treatment of race,
ethinicity, gender, and class during the historical eras in which they were made and consumed in order to
understand how they dramatize cultural ideologies of specific time periods.
3) Students explore solutions to historical problems that still pertain today. For example, students analyze
how the vertical integration that typified the studio system of the 1920s-1940s has once again arisen and
intensified since the 1980s, limiting ideological diversity in movie production and marginalizing films that
cannot be mobilized as "synergistic" vehicles for promoting advertising and conspicuous consumption.
4) Student use Hollywood film as a tool to discuss how a medium generally viewed as passive
"entertainment" can be situated within a larger context involvng legislative policy and industry structure,
race, gender, and class ideology, and historical and cultural circumstance.
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5) Students apply and critique different theories about the relationship between movies and society. For
example, students discuss how Stuart Hall's scholarship on hegemony argues that reading a movie is a
process of "negotiation" through whiich movies uphold dominant ideologies (meritocracy, heterosexuality,
etc) even as they allow subversive readings of these beliefs.
15.
List or attach the Course Outline (adequately described and including percentage of time to be allocated
to each topic). Curriculum Committees may request additional information. Topics larger than 20% need
to be broken down further. Indicate in your course outline where the Student Learning Outcomes
checked above are being met.
Film and Culture in relation to Historical Considerations: 60% (L.O. 2, 3, 5)
The Emergence of Cinema as an Institution (6%)
The Studio System (6%)
American Comedy (6%)
War and Cinema (6%)
Film Noir (6%)
The Western (6%)
Hollywood and the Cold War (6%)
Hollywood in the Age of Television (6%)
Hollywood and the Counterculture (6%)
Hollywood in the Twenty-First Century (6%)
Film and Culture in relation to Gender and Sexuality issues 15% (L.O. 2, 3, 4, 5)
Film and Culture in relation to Racial issues 15% (L.O. 2, 3, 4, 5)
Critical Methodologies 5% (L.O. 3, 5)
Personal/Group Reflection 5% (L.O. 3, 5)
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St. Cloud State University
General Education Transmittal Form
Academic Affairs Use Only:
Response Date:
Effective Date:
Proposal Number
Department: TFSD
Course or Course(s): TH 175 - Film and Culture
Jeffrey Bleam
Department or Unit Chair Signature
2/25/10
Date
Department forward to Academic Affairs for publication and electronically to Chair of General Education Committee, Chair
of College Curriculum Committee, College Dean
Recommendation of General Education Committee:
Approve
Remarks:
Disapprove
Chairperson
Committee
Signature
Date
Recommendation of University Curriculum Committee:
Approve
Remarks:
Disapprove
Chairperson
Committee
Signature
Date
Recommendation of Faculty Association:
Approve
Remarks:
Disapprove
FA Senate
Signature
Date
Action of Academic Vice President:
Approve
Disapprove
Signature
Entered in Curriculum Data File
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Remarks:
Date