In this class students will have an opportunity to advance the critical and textual analysis they began in Black Film and Fiction in the previous semester. Students assign films, film theory, and historical texts and facilitate at least one session. As importantly, students will also organize and teach a monthly workshop composed of a group of about fifty African American high school students. We will also use films as an entry to working with these students in their analytical and writing skills in smaller groups which Oxy students will lead. May be taken as ECLS 397 .
Enrollment is limited.
Group 5 390. We will study visual culture, including advertisements, family photograph albums and collectibles, to examine the changing construction of American identity in the 19th and 20th centuries. Group 5 397. 2 or 4 units Staff 490. The course is designed to assist students with the completion of their papers on a topic that reflects their area of emphasis.