Postgraduate Course: Indigenous Politics, Cultures, and Screen in Canada (SCAN11018)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Social Anthropology |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course explores the significance of screen as a medium for understanding Canada's complex relations with its Aboriginal peoples and as a channel for Indigenous self-determination. It examines key turning points in Aboriginal-State relations in Canada through their portrayal on screen. It then considers how different Aboriginal communities use television, film, video and new media to promote national and international understanding of their cultures.
The course is framed by the interdisciplinary, area studies approach of Canadian Studies. It includes an examination of international and national films made about Indigenous communities in Canada; the emergence and output of Indigenous broadcasting companies; the establishment, output and impact of community-based Indigenous production companies in Canada, and the increasing emphasis on screen as a mechanism for engaging Aboriginal youth in the politics of cultural self-determination. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Lecture | Seminar Room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building | 1-11 | | 16:10 - 18:00 | | | |
| First Class |
Week 1, Tuesday, 16:10 - 18:00, Zone: Central. Seminar Room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building |
| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course, students will have had the opportunity to develop key interdisciplinary academic skills and key transferable skills that may assist them in future career development.
- The lectures enable students to develop key skills in absorbing new material, analysing it critically, and appreciating screen as a mechanism for cross-cultural understanding.
- The seminars enable students to apply critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis to issues that are informed by key developments in Canadian Studies. They also enable students to make presentations, review, consolidate and extend knowledge, skills practices and thinking on Indigenous screen cultures, and communicate with peers.
- The research project that students undertake prior to their written assignment will enable students to demonstrate initiative and develop core research skills.
- The individual written assessment enables students to develop core skills in writing, analysis and presentation to assist the preparation of a fully referenced journal article, with an abstract summarizing its core argument and research focus. This exercise enables students to develop original and creative responses to questions of Indigenous politics, culture and screen in Canada. |
Assessment Information
25% Individual seminar presentations and seminar participation.
This mark will reflect the quality of the individual student's participation in the seminars and will be recorded by the course organizer on a seminar feedback form. The mark will assess the analytical and presentational qualities of (i) the student's individual presentation in the first part of the course; (ii) the presentation of their research project in the second part of the course. It will also assess the analytic quality of the student's overall contribution to seminar discussion and peer feedback on other students¿ project presentations.
75% 4000 word journal article + abstract
Students are expected to indicate the name of the academic or professional journal that they have had in mind when preparing the article and, if possible, should attach a journal style sheet as an appendix.
The mark will reflect the quality of the research undertaken for the article and the way in which it is presented and analysed. The mark will also reflect the quality of the abstract presented, the argument developed, and the references provided. |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
Balturschat, Doris. ¿Television and Canada¿s Aboriginal Communities: Seeking Opportunities Through Traditional Storytelling and Digital Technologies. Canadian Journal of Communication 29, 1 (2004): 47-59.
Evans, Michael Robert. Isuma: Inuit Video Art. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008.
Hafsteinsson, Sigurjón Baldur and Marian Bredin. Indigenous Screen Cultures in Canada. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2010.
Hendry, Joy. Reclaiming Culture: Indigenous Peoples and Self-Representation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Malloy, John S. A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879-1986. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
Pasch, Timothy J. 'Starting Fire with Gunpowder revisited: Inuktitut New Media content creation in the Canadian Arctic.' Etudes/Inuit/Studies, 34, 2 (2010): 61-80.
Roth, Lorna. Something New In the Air: The Story of First Peoples Television Broadcasting in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005.
Simpson, Leanne and Kiera Ladner, ed. This is an Honour Song: Twenty Years Since the Blockades. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2010.
Stern, Pamela and Lisa Stevenson. Critical Inuit Studies: An Anthology of Contemporary Arctic Ethnography. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
Timpson, Annis May, ed. First Nations, First Thoughts: The Impact of Indigenous Thought in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009. |
| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Annis May Timpson
Tel: (0131 6)50 4129
Email: directorofcanadianstudies@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Gillian Macdonald
Tel: (0131 6)51 3244
Email: gillian.macdonald@ed.ac.uk |
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