course esstentials

This course introduces students to the basic tools of film, including cinematic elements and genre. Students will learn to recognize, describe, and critically analyze film as an art form and a cultural product. From a diverse range of films from across the globe, within various eras and communities, the course investigates how film represents, reinforces, and subverts cultural values, identities, and worldviews. Through exposure to global perspectives, students will be able to analyze film both through formal practice and sociocultural context.

This Global Theme course plays an important role in the Charlotte Core. It focuses on engaging students with the world in which they live as both individuals as well as members of society. You will learn the following engagement across perspectives skills while practicing critical thinking. 

• Ask questions about familiar and unfamiliar communities and/or cultures 

• Discuss cultural similarities and differences in perspectives, behaviors, expressions, and/or communication styles across space and/or time 

• Interpret events, issues, problems, etc. from multiple perspectives

Being able to work and collaborate with diverse groups of people and to approach problems creatively are skills that employers want and that you need to succeed in college and your daily life. The Charlotte Core provides you with many opportunities to develop this engagement across perspectives competency in your Global and Local Theme courses, major, and co-curricular activities. 

Other Theme courses and courses in your major will build on the skills you develop in this class and provide you with even more opportunities to practice them. The Global Theme Courses (1501 and 1502) engage issues related to areas outside of the United States. Assignments from this course may be used for general education continuous learning improvement regarding the competencies. All identifying information will be removed.