NCHU Course Outline

Course Name	(中) 電影中的社會變遷(0405)
	(Eng.) Social Change Through Movies
Offering Dept	General Education Center
Course Type	Required	Credits	2	Teacher	LIN, CHIH-LUNG
Department	General	Language	English	Semester	2025-FALL
Course Description	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.
Prerequisites				self-directed learning in the course	Y

Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%)			Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives	Competency Indicators	Ratio(%)	Teaching Methods	Assessment Methods
1.To learn about the historical and cultural background of contemporary society. 2.To gain an awareness of the political and economic realities and challenges of modern world.	5.International Perspective 6.Social Care	50 50	Discussion Lecturing	Attendance Assignment
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content Week 1 Introduction & Persuading the Public – The Lion Has Wings (1939) (76m) * The film as propaganda. Week 2 Social Order – High Noon (1952)(85m) * The role in preventing crime. Week 3 Social Order - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)(80m) * What is rumor? Week 4 The Truman Show (1998)(103m) * A Journal of Self-Discovery. Week 5 Moon Festival Week 6 The First Assignment. Week 7 Gender – Gaslight (1940)(84m) * The origin of ”gaslighting effect”. Week 8 Gender – Suffragette (2015)(106m) * Women’s fights for equal rights of the late 19th century. Week 9 Family – Brief Encounter (1945)(86m) * How do you choose whether to stay or go? Week 10 Family – Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957) (93m) * What do you feel during a relationship breakdown? Week 11 The Second Assignment. Week 12 Work and Married Life – Swing Shift (1984)(100m) *The meaning of work as a married woman. Week 13 Work and Married Life – Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)(105m) *Balacing work and parenting as a single parent. Week 14 AI – Ruby Sparks (2012)(104m) * Progammed to love. Week 15 AI - Never Let Me Go (2010)(105m) * Is human cloning real in humans? Week 16 The Third Assignment self-directed learning    03.Preparing presentations or reports related to industry and academia.
Evaluation
The top of the grading scale is capped at 100. The compositions are graded accordingly. Attitude in class (15 percent of total grade) The first assignment (25 percent of total grade) The second assignment (25 percent of total grade) The third assignment (25 percent of total grade) Report after self-directed learning (10 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.
Textbook & other References
Jean-Anne Sutherland, Cinematic Sociology: Social Life in Film (London: Sage, 2009)
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
Erik Barnouw, Documentary: A History of the Non-fiction Film (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993). Cynthia Baron, Diane Carson, Mark Bernard, Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film and the Politics of Representation (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2014). David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction. 10 edition. (New York, N.Y: McGraw-Hill Education, 2012). Mark C Carnes, Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies (New York: Henry Holt, 1996). Martin Clayton, Music, words and voice: A reader (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007).
Office Hours
By appointment
Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs(Link URL)
03.Preparing presentations or reports related to industry and academia. include experience courses：N

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