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Upper-Level Courses
ANTHRO 309 002: Ethnography of the Himalaya – Diversity and Development
Description: Ethnographic engagement with lives of people in and from the Himalayan region: including parts of Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan; Tibetan cultural zones traversing these countries; and diasporas. Students will be doing a media-based project and working with podcasts and documentaries in the course.
Instructor: Sara Shneiderman
ANTHRO 332 002: Oral Tradition
Description: An ethnographic perspective on the dynamics of oral tradition in various oral and literate cultures; the characteristics and roles of oral genres including folktale, genealogy, oral history, autobiography, and myth in these societies; and the relationship between orality and literacy.
Instructor: Leslie Robertson
ANTHRO 516 001: Qualitative Methods in Anthropology
Description: A discussion of selected methods used to observe, describe, and interpret cultural phenomena and social organization, including participant observation, interviewing, ethnographic semantics, life histories, componential analysis, and photography. Attention will also be given to ethics in anthropological research and writing and to such analytic matters as the nature of description, conceptualization, generalization, and content analysis.
Instructor: Hugh Phillimore Gusterson
ARTH 380 001: Art as Technology
Description: Relationship between artistic practice and media, examined through a history of paradigm shifts in technology. 41 seats restricted to media studies students, and 19 seats for all UBC students.
Instructor: Jillian Lerner
ASIA 305 011: Asian Horror Cinema – National Nightmares and Specters of Trauma
Description: Engaging with the ideologies, industrial histories, socio-cultural contexts, and aesthetics of horror films – and the genre itself – from various Asian cinemas.
Instructor: TBA.
ASIA 353 021: Introduction to Hindi Film
Description: History, aesthetics, politics, and social roles of Bollywood films. Films will be subtitled.
Instructor: Sunil Kumar Bhatt
ASIA 354 011: Introduction to Japanese Cinema
Description: Students will be introduced to the work of the major directors (e.g., Ozu, Mizoguchi, Kurosawa, Itami, Oshima, Shinoda). Ideological uses of literary texts and period pieces (e.g., Ugetsu, Life of Oharu, Double Suicide). Impact of depiction of Japanese in American film.
Instructor: Nicholas Hall
ASIA 354 011: History of Chinese Cinema
Description: Introduction to the work of major directors.
Instructor: Xiaoqiao Xu
ASIA 356 021: Korean Cinema
Description: Introduction to the work of the major film makers.
Instructor: TBA.
ASIA 365 021: Punjabi Cinema
Description: Punjabi culture, history, and social values through films. The class includes film viewings and seminar discussions. Films will be subtitled.
Instructor: Kiran Sunar
ASIA 336A 021: Topics in Asian Studies – Iran, Women, Art
Description: The title for this course is “Iranian Women Writers and Artists.” The course is a survey of literature, cinema, and visual art by modern and contemporary Iranian women writers and artists of differing identities, worldwide, with a focus on their narratives and expressions of social dissent and criticism.
Instructor: Mostafa Abedinifard
ASIA 394 011: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema
Description: Gender politics, family relationships, and women’s social, economic, and political roles in post-revolutionary Iran as shown through Iranian cinema.
Instructor: Mostafa Abedinifard
ENGL 396 001: Studies in Drama
Description: Plays organized by thematic approach, cultural movements, critical issues, and/or geopolitical regions. Consult department website for current year’s offerings. Credit will be granted for up to 6 credits of ENGL 396 and/or 405. For ENGL courses at the 200- or 300- level, prior completion of at least one 100- level ENGL course is recommended.
Instructor: Miguel Mota
GMST 335 001: German Cinema
Description: Screening, discussion, and critical analysis of influential cinema from German-speaking societies from the silent era to the 21st century. Find out more at https://cenes.ubc.ca/courses/. Credit will be granted for only one of GERM 304 or GMST 335.
Instructor: Florian Gassner
GRSJ 304 101: Gaming the System – Digital Media, Social Justice, and Video Games
Description: Emerging technology in the areas of digital affect theory, cyborg feminism, critical digital humanities, critical race studies, surveillance studies, and queer game studies.
Instructor: TBA.
GRSJ 307 201: Gender, Race, Sexuality and Popular Culture
Description: Critical examination of mainstream and alternative media images of gender, race, and sexuality in the context of networked social media, film, music, and television.
Instructor: Alifa Bandali
HIST 400 101: The Practice of Oral History
Description: The practice, ethics, and politics of oral history. Provides research training, where students design and complete projects based on oral history interviews.
Instructor: Anne Murphy
SLAV 307A 101: Literature and Film in Eastern Europe
Description: Films and translated literature by Slavic writers with emphasis on the interaction between politics and literature.
Instructor: TBA.