COURSE TITLE: WESTERNS: AN INTERCULTURAL INTRODUCTION TRANSLATION: WESTERNS: UNA INTRODUCCION INTERCULTURAL COURSE CODE: LET203G CREDITS: 10 TIME BLOCKS: 02 CATEGORY: GENERAL EDUCATION TYPE: LECTURE GRADING: STANDARD KEYWORDS: WESTERNS, FILM, REVISIONISM EDUCATIONAL LEVEL: UNDERGRADUATE FG AREA: HUMANITIES FG SKILLS: EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION, CRITICAL THINKING I.ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AND HONOR CODE This course is committed to building a culture of respect and integrity; thus, it adheres to the UC Honor Code, which declares that "As a member of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile community, I commit to respect the principles and regulations governing it. Likewise, I commit myself to act with fairness and honesty in my interactions/relationships with other members of the community, and in the performance of all work, particularly in those activities related to teaching, learning, and the creation, dissemination and transfer of knowledge. Furthermore, I am committed to ensure the dignity and integrity of people, by avoiding and rejecting any abusive behavior whether it is physical, verbal, psychological or sexual violence. I equally assume the commitment to take care of University property". Likewise, this course is committed to contribute towards building a culture of Academic Integrity, recognizing it as one of the pillars of the formation of the students, using teaching-learning methodologies to encourage the values of honesty, truthfulness, trust, justice, respect and responsibility. II.COURSE DESCRIPTION This course will allow the students to explore interculturality in the American West, with reference to various underrepresented voices, including American Indian, African American and queer encounters with the West. We will accomplish this through the key works of Western fiction and film; novels by Wister, Dove, Williams and Reed, and films by American and Italian directors. Regarding methodological strategies, flipped learning, text analysis and team-based learning will be included, which will be evaluated through tests, a group project, and the participation and contribution to discussions in class. III.LEARNING OUTCOMES 1.Critically evaluate the relationship between written, historical and sociological accounts of the cultures of the American West . 2.Communicate ideas orally and in writing regarding the development of diverse lifestyles, expressions and traditions in the West. 3.Collaborate on critical material that communicates familiarity with central writers of westerns and their key works. 4.Propose new understandings of the complex, interrelated geographical and sociological spaces of the West. 5.Apply models of interculturality to readings of western texts and themes. IV.CONTENTS 1.The Creation of the West 1.1.Introduction 1.2.The Frontier Club I, Owen Wister 1.3.The Frontier Club II, Frederic Remington and Theodore Roosevelt 1.4.Outside the Frontier Club, Mourning Dove 2.The West on Film 2.1.Cold War Cowboys, Fred Zinnemann and Howard Hawks 2.2.Western Bodies I, Anthony Mann and Budd Boetticher 2.3.Western Bodies II, Nicholas Ray 2.4.Italian Westerns 3.Revising the West 3.1.John Williams 3.2.Ishmael Reed 3.3.Andy Warhol 3.4.Annie Proulx V.METHODOLOGICAL STRATEGIES -Lecture method. -Team-based learning. -Flipped learning. VI.EVALUATION STRATEGIES -Tests: 60% -Group project: 30% -Class participation: 10% VII.BIBLIOGRAPHY Minimum Owen Wister, The Virginian (Oxford University Press, 2009) Mourning Dove, Cogewea (University of Nebraska Press, 1981) John Williams, Butcher?s Crossing (Vintage, 2013) Ishmael Reed, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (Allison & Busy, 1995) Annie Proulx,"Brokeback Mountain" in Close Range (Harper Collins, 1999) Films John Ford, Stagecoach (1939) Fred Zinneman, High Noon (1952) Howard Hawks, Rio Bravo (1959) Sergio Leone, C'era una volta il West (1968) Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog (2021) Complementary Austin Fisher, Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western (Tauris, 2016) Christine Bold, The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924 (Oxford UP,2013) Christopher Frayling, Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone (Tauris, 1981/2006) Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (1970) Glenn Frankel, High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic (Bloomsbury, 2017) Jane Tompkins, West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns (Oxford UP, 1992) Kevin Grant, Any Gun Can Play (FAB Press, 2011) Richard Slotkin, Gunfighter nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-century America (Atheneum, 1992) Victoria Lamont, Westerns: A Women?s History (U Nebraska Press, 2016) Jim Kitses, Gregg Rickman (eds.), The Western Reader (Limelight, 1998) Films Howard Hawks, Red River (1948) John Ford, The Searchers (1956) Damiano Damiani, A Bullet for the General (1966) Sergio Leone, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch (1969) Peter Bogdanovich, The Last Picture Show (1971) Kevin Costner, Dances with Wolves (1990) Cline Eastwood, The Unforgiven (1992) Maggie Greenwald, The Ballad of Little Jo (1993) Alejandro Gonzalez I?arritu, The Revenant (2015) PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE FACULTAD DE LETRAS / FORMACION GENERAL / NOVIEMBRE 2022