| School: | Social Sciences | ||
| Academic Unit: | Social Anthropology and History | ||
| Level of studies: | Undergraduate | ||
| Course code: | WS-080 | Semester: | 6st |
| Course Title: | Historical Film | ||
| Independent teaching activities | Weekly teaching hours | Credits | |
| Lectures | 3 | 6 | |
| Course type: | Special background, specialized knowledge | ||
| Prerequisite courses: | None | ||
| Language of instruction and examinations: | Greek | ||
| Is the course offered to erasmus students: | No | ||
| Course website (Url): | https://en.sah.aegean.gr/course/ws-080/ | ||
(2) LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learning outcomes:
The seminar aims at exploring the relationship between history and optical culture focusing on historical films and documentaries. Students will get acquainted with visual representations of historical events and the language of images. They will explore the inventive nature of visual images and the way these images produce truth claims. They will delve into the relationship between cultural memory, optical culture and modern and postmodern forms of historical consciousness.
General Competences:
Students will work on a well-organized reading material and classwork.
Students will develop critical, inductive and creative competences,
Learn to respect national and ethnic difference,
Realize the gendered nature of historical knowledge and
Learn to participate in free discussion.
(3) SYLLABUS
The seminar is organized around two major fields of inquiry and research. First, there are theoretical issues involved in the study of the relationship between history and visual culture, like the nature of visual representations, their similarity and difference from other more familiar, material to historians, like the printed or written source. Also, the relationship between visual culture, cultural memory, and public history will also be explored. Second, the seminar will discuss a number of movies and documentaries related to the following themes: Antiquity, Colonialism and anti-colonial struggle, the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the civil wars in Greece and Spain.
(4) TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS – EVALUATION
| Delivery: | Face-to face | ||
| Use of information and communications technology : | Use of ITC in teaching Use of ITC in communication with students |
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| Teaching methods: | Activity | Semester workload | |
| Lectures | 15 | ||
| Reading suggested bibliography And studying sources for the class on weekly basis |
40 | ||
| Presentation in class | 15 | ||
| Discussion in class | 20 | ||
| Preparation for the final essay | 40 | ||
| Writing the Final essay | 40 | ||
| Course total: | 170 | ||
| Student performance evaluation: |
Class presentation, discussion in class, Final essay Students are asked to make extensive use of visual sources, power point and the network. | ||
(5) ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Suggested bibliography:
Registered students have access to the page of the course in E-class where they find a list for suggested reading for each week as well as links to documentaries and films.