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3.00 Credits
This course explores, through the medium of film, a variety of social, cultural, and political themes within American society from the 1920's to the present. The goal of the course is to investigate a series of topics reflected in cinema, which influence popular consciousness through representation of images, values, ideals and myths. The topics are approached through Hollywood films, documentaries, film clips, texts, supplemental readings, and lectures. From such perspectives students can examine vital motifs and themes in American life: power and the issue of empowerment; gender and race relations; sexuality and romance; war and peace; crime and violence; class divisions; decline of the family, and so forth. This course emphasizes the dialectic between the larger cinematic enterprise and the social reality of American life, especially throughout the post-World War II years. HUMANITIES & FINE ARTS DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
Documentary films have gained considerable popularity of late as a means of representing this particular moment in history. This course investigates reasons for this new interest; charting a history of documentary film. Considering innovations in style and form, from early observational films to contemporary reflexive ones, the course unpacks the erotics of documentary through a critical reading of classic films in the genre. FINE ARTS AND HUMANITIES DOMAINS
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3.00 Credits
Over the past decade documentary films have entered a new golden age: more popular, more seen and appreciated, more in number, and more important than ever. This course considers the history and politics of recent documentaries; their challenge to the official stories of government and media; their presentation of an alternative reading of our times. The films of Barbara Kopple, Michael Moore, Errol Morris, Robert Geenwald and others will be examined in an effort to come to a critically informed understanding of the work of contemporary political documentary, its methods, techniques and strategies. FINE ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAINS
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This course traces the history of modern cities and the modern urban experience through a rich variety of materials. Cities included in the course fall broadly into three categories: the ancient cities of Jericho and Ur; the industrial cities of the nineteenth century-Manchester and Chicago; and the current world cities of New York, London, and Tokyo. Los Angeles is featured primarily in the later half of the course as an example of a global city. The themes of the course focus primarily on the physical situation of the cities: living conditions, urban planning, architecture, and sanitation, although it will also consider such issues as the political and economic basis of urban life. It will also investigate the overall importance of cities and their relationship with the surrounding countryside. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the interplay between mass media and politics, race, and religion in contemporary American society. Students investigate the influence of popular culture on such critical topics as abortion, presidential politics, race, national security, judicial appointments, corporate corruption, and questions concerning moral values. Through lectures, critical dialogue, guest speakers, films and documentaries such as Fahrenheit 911, Crash, and Passion of the Christ, students examine view points spanning the left, right, and center of the political spectrum. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
In this class students explore the historical and cultural underpinnings of African American theology. Tracing the sources of theology from within the black historical experience, a significant focus of study includes the continuing role and engagement of the church in the struggle for racial and social justice. Students critically examine the historical and cultural context of the emergence of the church from its historical roots in Africa, through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and civil rights and Black Power Movements. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course uses an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Los Angeles with a focus on social history, power and resistance. This course challenges students to think about Los Angeles and their own relationship to place. Readings for the course include fiction and non-fiction to explore how city boosters and writers on the region have blurred fact and fiction in creating Los Angeles. The course will also include field trips and features excerpts from LA films. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course seeks to rethink some of the standard (U.S.) domestic narratives of the "Sixties" that assign a primacy to national/local mass protest, urban rebellion, and liberal reform, by examining the international context that shaped these phenomena. The focus is on social and political movements as world-relational phenomena and will illuminate how international figures, events and insurgent movements for revolutionary change shaped domestic politics and vice-versa. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys important political and cultural themes of the 1960s, focusing on the general legacy of the period from a contemporary perspective. Topics include the Vietnam War and the movements it spawned; Berkeley upheavals from the Free Speech Movement to People's Park; Civil Rights and rise of the Black Panthers; the rock revolution and its cultural ambience; the French May and 1968 protests across the world; Weather politics; assassinations of the 1960s and their aftermath; the maturation of the New Left into new social movements of the 1970s. The survey encompasses historical context, political events, cultural transformations, shifts in class, race, and gender relations, and the larger global impact. HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course examines crucial chapters in the story of black and brown inter-racial relations focusing on the early to mid 19th century. The critical role played by black fighters during Mexico's independence struggle and the work of Mexicans in Texas on behalf of the Underground Railroad are among the topics to be explored. Additional topics include the black emigration to Mexico for employment and black and brown collaboration in sports and the arts. Attention is also given to conflict between black and brown peoples and forces that manipulate and profit from antagonistic relations between the two groups. The course helps students discover and critically analyze Mexican and African peoples' alliances and to develop strategies and organizational models for facilitating cross-cultural leadership and cooperation. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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