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3.00 Credits
M. Salazkina This course examines the history of Latin American cinema through a series of episodes in its cinematic encounters with Europe, Russia, and the United States as a way to analyze conflicting models of cinematic strategies and aesthetic and political ideologies. It includes such movements as Mexican cinema of the Golden Age, Brazilian cinema novo, theory and practice of the "Third Cinema" of Argentina and Cuba, and contemporary works of the "new Latin American cinema" placing them in the international and pan-American context. Prerequisi te: FMST 200 or a cinema studies course in the FMST minor, or permission of instructo
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3.00 Credits
L. Caminati This course surveys the traditions of personal, experimental, ethnographic, and political documentary filmmaking. This overview of the history and aesthetics of documentary examines its origins, forms, goals, and contemporary styles while at the same time problematizing its canonical readings and reception. Issues covered include documentary styles, documentary representation of history and memory, the filmmaker's relationship to the subject and the viewer, and the impact of technology on documentary techniques. Particular attention is paid to the influence that certain social and political movements have had on documentaries and filmmakers. A required film series accompanying the class includes works by directors such as Flaherty, Riefenstahl, Wiseman, Rouch, Morris, Moffatt, and many others. Prerequisite: FMST 200 or a cinema studies course in the FMST minor, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
M. Simonson This course explores the construction and performance of gender and sexuality in and through Hollywood film. Using a variety of critical approaches, the class examines the various ways in which gender and sexual identities are represented and signified onscreen in a variety of films from the silent period through the early twenty-first century. Particular attention is paid to how Hollywood films have historically reproduced and/or questioned contemporary gender roles and sexual identities, and how cultural narratives surrounding masculinity, femininity, sexuality, and queerness have been challenged and/or reaffirmed in Hollywood productions. In addition to close examinations of onscreen performances, generic conventions, technical practices and aesthetic styles in specific films, the class explores various ways in which the spectator's gender and sexuality have been implicated in film viewing over the course of the twentieth century. Coursework includes required weekly film screenings and writing assignments, analysis papers, and in-class presentations. Prerequisite: FMST 200 or FSEM 149 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
L. Caminati, J. Knecht, M. Salazkina This seminar offers an advanced level study of a specific and narrowed field within the discipline of film and media studies. Each year, this course focuses on topics that reflect the breadth of film and media studies at Colgate. Faculty teach in the area of their scholarly expertise on a rotating basis. The seminar may focus on an in-depth study of a filmmaker, or a school of film, or genre, or focus on an advanced study of the history and theory of television or media, among other things. Prerequisite: FMST 200 and one additional cinema studies course in the FMST minor, or FMST 200 and permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
M. Hays-Mitchell This course uses the geographic perspective as a vehicle to enrich students' critical understanding of several dimensions of contemporary global change. The course examines, in sequence, geo-demographic, geo-economic, geo-political, geo-cultural, and geo-environmental change. These segments include topics such as population growth and international migration, infectious disease epidemics, the dynamics and consequences of foreign direct investment, democratization, nationality-based conflict, the cultural impacts of global media, global warming, and the biodiversity crisis. Examples of these phenomena and their consequences are drawn from various geographic settings. (Formerly GEOG 101).
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3.00 Credits
M. Hays-Mitchell The second half of the 20th and the early 21st centuries have seen substantial changes in both the organization of the global economy and the role played by particular places within it. This course traces some of the key changes that have taken place, analyzes the processes underlying those processes, and examines their implications for the well-being of place-based populations. Individual units of the course focus on the changing role within the world economy of North America, Western Europe, the transition economies of Eastern Europe and Russia, the so-called East Asian "Miracle Economies," Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa. (Formerl y GEOG 210, Geography of the World Economy).
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3.00 Credits
J. Graybill, P. Klepeis The spatial scale, magnitude, and pace of human-induced environmental changes over the past 300 years are unprecedented. It is essential to undertake reasoned assessments of the complex and interrelated political, socioeconomic, technological, cultural, and biophysical factors leading to environmental changes if society is to manage them appropriately. This course is an introduction to the major environmental problems of resource depletion, pollution, and ecosystem transformation. It explores the effects of environmental changes on society, as well as societal responses to them, and enhances understanding of the causes of these changes from multiple theoretical perspectives. (Formerly GEOG 206, Environmental Issues).
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3.00 Credits
A. Burnett, P. Scull The objective of this course is to provide students with a general understanding of the processes and spatial distribution of the Earth's primary physical systems and the ways in which humans interact with these systems. Course emphasis is divided into three areas: atmospheric processes, the spatial dynamics of vegetation and soils, and landform development. Students are introduced to the basic physical processes and interactions that operate within each of these categories, with special focus on the ways in which these factors relate to contemporary environmental problems. (Formerly GEOG 102).
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3.00 Credits
A. Burnett, J. Graybill, P. Klepeis Human-induced climate change - global warming - is the defining environmental and social issue of our times. That people are dramatically altering the climate is now the resounding consensus in the scientific community. Potential short- and long-term impacts include biodiversity loss, sea-level rise and coastal flooding, more intense storms, threats to human health, and disruptions of freshwater supplies and food security. But while the global community increasingly understands the basic processes driving climate change and is starting to appreciate the consequences of a warmer world, the coupled social-natural dynamics of global warming are complex and the issue remains controversial. This course provides students with the necessary background on the biophysical, social, and ethical dimensions of global warming - as well as climate-society relationships more broadly defined - so that they can contribute productively to societal discourse about and, potentially, action regarding the issue. It also highlights the multiple modes of analysis commonly used in the discipline of geography (e.g., quantitative methods, qualitative methods, spatial analysis, etc.). (Forme rly GEOG 204
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3.00 Credits
E. Kraly This course is a study of the fundamental concepts and techniques needed for quantitative research in the social sciences. It treats issues such as the identification of research problems; hypothesis formation; the collection, evaluation, and presentation of data; and it provides practical knowledge of elementary statistics as well as some basics of computer use. No prior experience with computers is needed. Students select, design, and execute their own research projects and present their findings. Prerequisite: one social science course. This course is crosslisted as POSC 225, SOAN 225, and EDUC 225.
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