Temporal Possibilities of Set Design and Architecture in Jacques Tati’s Mon Oncle
Anna Molloy
In this Student Voices essay, Anna Molloy explicates the architectural set design of Jacques Tati's film Mon Oncle.
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Teaching Film Urbanism
Erica Stein
Erica Stein discusses the syllabus for her course "Cinemas and Urbanisms" and introduces the essays in the Student Voices section.
Dignified Spaces in European Cities: A Co-teaching Experiment
Ipek Celik Rappas, Katharina Bauer, James Kapalo, and Martin Radermacher
In this issue of On Teaching, the authors describe their collaborative, interdisciplinary, and inter-institutional undergraduate and graduate course "Dignified Spaces in a Plural Europe: On the (In)Visibility of Cultural and Religious Communities in Post-Industrial Cities," providing an overview of its aims and reflecting on their experiences teaching this unique, collaborative project.
Mapping the Media Cityscape of New Orleans
Robert Joseph
Robert Joseph reflects on teaching an interdisciplinary social science course on mapping film and television cityscapes.
Approaching Integrative Learning: Assignments Linking ‘Narratives of Travel’ Courses
Sharon Albert & Amy Corbin
Sharon Albert & Amy Corbin end this issue with a discussion of the integrative assignments they designed around immigration and migration for their linked courses.
Approaching Integrative Learning: ‘Narratives of Travel’ in Film and Religion Studies
Sharon Albert & Amy Corbin
Sharon Albert & Amy Corbin on teaching migration, travel, and immigration through the cluster format
Cinemas of Economic Crisis: Interdisciplinary Teaching in Languages & Film Studies
Amy Tibbitts & Dennis Hanlon
Dennis Hanlon and Amy Tibbitts discuss how they managed issues connected to team teaching, interdisciplinary topics, and diversely prepared student populations in their class on Spanish and Argentine cinemas of the economic crisis.