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Humanities
Description: Course emphasizes an interdisciplinary, topical approach to the study of world borders, international migration, and diaspora as portrayed in cinema. The role of race as a determining factor in border controversies will be explored, examining how race is constructed by cultural and political considerations and how border images have been constructed and shaped over time in response to political, economic and cultural trends. Letter grade only. Course fee required.
Units: 3
No sections currently offered.
Requirement Designation: Aesthetic and Humanistic Inquiry + Global
Humanities
Term : Summer 2014
Catalog Year : 2013-2014
HUM 232 - Cinema And Borders: Race, Migration, And Diaspora In Film And Media
Description: Course emphasizes an interdisciplinary, topical approach to the study of world borders, international migration, and diaspora as portrayed in cinema. The role of race as a determining factor in border controversies will be explored, examining how race is constructed by cultural and political considerations and how border images have been constructed and shaped over time in response to political, economic and cultural trends. Letter grade only. Course fee required.
Units: 3
No sections currently offered.
Requirement Designation: Aesthetic and Humanistic Inquiry + Global