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FILM 309 Environmental Media Units: 3.00
This course examines contemporary media works which address the climate crisis. We examine a range of activist media, documentaries, experimental media, Indigenous media, and fiction films to consider both how the climate crisis is portrayed, and the successes and failures of the representational strategies deployed.
Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Practicum)
Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Challenge default assumptions about how media activism, in relation to climate change in particular, work.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the debates surrounding the use of rationality and emotion in addressing the environment and the climate crisis.
- Examine the roles played by various forms of technology in addressing the environment.
- Mobilize visual technologies to convey issues about the climate crisis.
- Understand various forms of media activism deployed in the climate crisis.