NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 電影中的社會變遷(0407)
(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-SPRING
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 Concern
50
50
Discussion
Lecturing
Attendance
Assignment
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Introduction
Week 2 Life - Never Let Me Go (2010)(105m)
Week 3 Social Order – High Noon (1952)(85m)
Week 4 Social Order – Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) (80m)
Week 5 Cultures - Black Narcissus (1947) (101m)
Week 6 The First Assessment
Week 7 No Class
Week 8 Love and Family – Brief Encounter (1945)(86m)
Week 9 Love and Family – Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957) (93m)
Week 10 Love and Family – Kramer VS. Kramer (1979)(105m)
Week 11 Friendship - What If (The F Word) (2013)(98m)
Week 12 The Second Assessment
Week 13 Gender – Gaslight (1940)(84m)
(N.B. This is NOT the Ingrid Bergman’s version in 1944.)
Week 14 Gender – Suffragette (2015)(106m)
Week 15 Gender – Gregory’s Girl (1981)(91m)
Week 16 The Third Assessment
Week 17 Self-directed learning (no class)
Week 18 Self-directed learning (no class)
Evaluation
Attitude (40 percent of total grade)
The First Assessment (20 percent of total grade)
The Second Assessment (20 percent of total grade)
The Third Assessment (20 percent of total grade)
Self-directed learning (bonus total grade)
Register Taking (each absence -10)
Textbook & other References
James Curran, Understanding Media: Communication, Power and Social Change (London: Pelican 2024).

Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
Erik Barnouw, Documentary: A History of the Non-fiction Film (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993).

Daniel Shaw, Film and Philosophy: Taking Movies Seriously (New York: Wildflower, 2008).
Office Hours
By appointment
Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs
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