The Politics of Evil: Teaching a Political Violence Film Course

Autor/in	Dunn, Joe P.
Titel	The Politics of Evil: Teaching a Political Violence Film Course
Quelle	In: History Teacher, 52 (2019) 3, S.499-522 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-2745
Schlagwörter	Violence; Film Study; History Instruction; Films; College Students; Death; Course Content + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gewalt; Filmkurs; History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; Film; Collegestudent; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Kursprogramm
Abstract	Joe Dunn has been a college professor for over forty-eight years. He teaches courses on the Vietnam War, the Cold War, Middle East conflict, and Revolutions and Totalitarian Regimes. The number of wars has increased, and his courses address other areas of national security, terrorism, and political tyranny as well. The course discussed here had its origins in a 2008 offering specifically on genocide. His students were/are at least aware of the Nazi Holocaust, although, despite focus on the subject in recent decades in the public schools, deeper understanding remains superficial. They remain largely oblivious about the Armenian, Cambodian, Balkan, and Sudanese genocides. Over the last decade, his course grew beyond genocide to include other areas of violence as well, and films became more and more central in the pedagogy. The model outlined in the article is a films course. A whole course could be offered on any one of the topics covered in the films, but on the eternal issue of breadth vs. depth, he made a conscious decision for wider exposure over heavier concentration on a more limited number of topics. He has offered the present course on different platforms--a four-week winter term, five-week and three-week summer terms, and a once-a-week thirteen-week semester. With some adjustments, the basics are the same. The course continues to evolve every time he teaches it, but the example that he writes about is from an offering on a four-week platform. Faculty members can shape their model according to one's particular interests or to different platforms available. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Society for History Education. California State University, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Boulevard, Long Beach, CA 90840-1601. Tel: 562-985-2573; Fax: 562-985-5431; Web site: http://www.societyforhistoryeducation.org/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01