Read images, documentaries, short videos and generated media closely. Distinguish evidence from the effects of presentation.
Check source and context, examine framing, music and narration, then explain which judgments the evidence supports.
For media literacy, language lessons, documentary discussions and digital citizenship.
Courses can connect more than one area. These descriptions come from the existing course collection.
The course does not rule on who is right about the climate. It handles something else: the judgment that surfaces after you watch a film — how much of it came from the evidence, and how much from the lighting, the framing and the score.
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Students compare three responses to overtourism in Venice, using documentary evidence to recommend a policy and explain its trade-offs.
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Students practise checking reports, images and videos using original sources, provenance, metadata and contextual evidence about time and place.
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Students use FLICC to examine two climate videos with different positions, checking both for selective evidence and explaining their judgments.
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