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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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: 2013/14 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
Course Start Date |
13/01/2014 |
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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Additional Notes |
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Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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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
1. Two Group Presentations and Class Participation: 20%
2. 4000 word Assessed Essay + 250 word Abstract: 80%
The course was taught for the first time in 2012/13. Students are required to present in class on two occasions. The first presentation focuses on a specific screen production. The second focuses on the work students have developed for their assessed essays. In each case students are assessed on the individual and group dimensions of their presentations. In addition, their general contribution to the class and attendance is monitored.
Graduate students are expected, in preparing their assessed essay to (a) identify and interview one relevant screen professional; (b) establish ethics clearance; and (c) produce their essay and abstract in the house-style of an appropriate journal. All these features would be retained in the new assessment mode. |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
Academic description |
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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 | Mr Fraser Maxwell
Tel: (0131 6)51 5066
Email: Fraser.Maxwell@ed.ac.uk |
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