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FILM 314 Media and the Global South Units: 3.00
This course examines media from one or more of the following geographic areas: Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Oceania. The course deploys transcultural approaches that open representational practices, histories, and theoretical frameworks to unsettle rigid hemispheric binaries from a media studies approach.
Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Practicum)
Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan or ([FILM 110/6.0 or FILM 111/3.0 or FILM 112/3.0] and permission of the Department).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Advanced and fluent practice of media literacy skills in terms of South/North power and economy.
- Demonstrate critical understanding of the geographic/hemispheric/national context in the creation and circulation of media and emergent media forms, audiences and access.
- Identify the tensions and intersections between models of regional media institutions, industries and creative practices.
- Evaluate economies, political ecologies and policies related to access to media making.