This course not open to Fall 2001Freshman. This course addresses the issues of Culture, Interculturality, Multiculturalism and Transculturality in the contemporary societies of the United States and Eastern Europe. While in the United States, a nationalistic paradigm has often existed in productive tension with a multicultural one, in Eastern Europe, this paradigm has lead to nationalistic and often mono-cultural societies. This course not open to Fall 2001Freshman. The intent of this course is to engage in a cultural study of the relationship between film and the post-modern conditions of social order.
Films construct images about social reality.
In this course, the ways in which these images present and interpret this relationship will be examined from the standpoint of post-modernism. Students will learn how to view films analytically, and how to apply cultural analysis to the post-modern conditions of social order. We will explore the shifting and interdisciplinary relationships between film, film criticism, and cultural analysis, and between writing and film as contemporary media forms. This course not open to Fall 2001Freshman. This course explores a range of theories of creativity.