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Teaching Nordic cinema: Perspectives and possibilities
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For the tenth anniversary issue ofJournal of Scandinavian Cinema(JSCA), C. Claire Thomson reflects on fifteen years of teaching Nordic cinema at University College London (UCL). The article outlines the teaching and learning contexts in which the subject is taught, and how teaching has been transformed by developments in scholarship in the field and online resources. The constraints and opportunities offered by the pivot to remote teaching during the 2020 pandemic are also considered. Three extracts from essays by students are offered as illustrations of how students from different disciplinary backgrounds and different parts of the world engage with Nordic cinema.
Title: Teaching Nordic cinema: Perspectives and possibilities
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For the tenth anniversary issue ofJournal of Scandinavian Cinema(JSCA), C.
Claire Thomson reflects on fifteen years of teaching Nordic cinema at University College London (UCL).
The article outlines the teaching and learning contexts in which the subject is taught, and how teaching has been transformed by developments in scholarship in the field and online resources.
The constraints and opportunities offered by the pivot to remote teaching during the 2020 pandemic are also considered.
Three extracts from essays by students are offered as illustrations of how students from different disciplinary backgrounds and different parts of the world engage with Nordic cinema.
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