國立中興大學教學大綱
課程名稱 (中) 電影中的社會變遷(0405)
(Eng.) Social Change Through Movies
開課單位 通識中心
課程類別 必修 學分 2 授課教師 施武陽 等
選課單位 不限系所 授課使用語言 英文 開課學期 1142
課程簡述 This course examines social changes through the medium of movies. Topics for this course include race, social classes, immigration, family, ideology, authority, war, media and AI. Using movies analysis, this course will examine how social change has been represented on screen. Critical analysis of movies should account for the social context where it was mad. Every week we introduce one issue through movies and discuss how movies play in the understanding of our life.
先修課程名稱
課程與核心能力關聯配比(%) 課程目標之教學方法與評量方法
課程目標 核心能力 配比(%) 教學方法 評量方法
1.Learn about the historical and cultural background of contemporary society.
2.Gain an awareness of the political and economic realities and challenges of modern world.
5.國際視野
6.社會關懷
50
50
討論
講授
出席狀況
作業
授課內容(單元名稱與內容、習作/每週授課、考試進度-共16週加自主學習)
週次 授課內容
第1週 Introduction &
Social Order – High Noon (1952)(85m)
* The role in preventing crime.
第2週 Social Order – Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) (80m)
* What is rumor?
第3週 Social Order - Moonstruck (1987)(102m)
* Identity restores the broken norms.
第4週 The First Assessment
第5週 Gender – Gaslight (1940)(84m)
* The origin of ”gaslighting effect”.
第6週 Love – Brief Encounter (1945)(86m)
* How do you choose whether to stay or go?
第7週 4/6 Adjusted holiday
第8週 AI – Ruby Sparks (2012)(104m)
* Progammed to love.
第9週 Lecture, Presentations and Forums (AI)
第10週 Lecture, Presentations and Forums (AI)
第11週 Family – Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957) (93m)
* What do you feel during a relationship breakdown?
第12週 The Second Assessment
第13週 Race - Driving Miss Daisy (1989)(99m)
* Bonding across divides
第14週 Lecture, Presentations and Forums (Race)

第15週 AI - Never Let Me Go (2010)(105m)
* Is human cloning real in humans?
第16週 The Third Assessment
自主學習
內容
   03.製作專題報告

學習評量方式
The top of the grading scale is capped at 100.
The compositions are graded accordingly.
Attitude in class (10 percent of total grade)
The first assessment (30 percent of total grade)
The second assessment (30 percent of total grade)
The third assessment (30 percent of total grade)
A student can make any grade item worth extra credit by submitting additional film criticism.
A student who misses class is expected to present an excuse for every absence by email in two weeks or 10 points deducted off total grade for every absence.
教科書&參考書目(書名、作者、書局、代理商、說明)
1.
Julianne Burton-Carvajal 
The Social Documentary in Latin America
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990
ISBN 978-0822954194

2.
Peter Sutoris
Visions of Development: Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948-75
Oxford University Press, 2016
ISBN  978-0190608323

3.
Felicity Colman
Film Theory
Wallflower Press, 2014
ISBN 9780231169738

4.
Matteo Pasquinelli.
The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
Verso 2023
ISBN 9781788730068

5.
Orian Brook
Culture is Bad for you
Manchester University Press, 2025
ISBN 9781526177810
課程教材(教師個人網址請列在本校內之網址)
iLearning


課程輔導時間
By appointment
聯合國全球永續發展目標(連結網址)
04.教育品質   05.性別平等提供體驗課程:N
請尊重智慧財產權及性別平等意識,不得非法影印他人著作。
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