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5 Favorite Films About Modern Latin America
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This video offers a brief review of 5 wonderful films that focus on specific topics in modern Latin American History.

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Arts and Humanities
Ethnic Studies
History
Social Science
Visual Arts
World Cultures
World History
Material Type:
Lecture
Lesson
Module
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Unit of Study
Author:
Anupama Mande
Date Added:
07/09/2020
Accelerated Introductory Portuguese for Spanish Speakers
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Accelerated Introductory Portuguese for Spanish Speakers covers the basics of Portuguese grammar and presents selected cultural aspects of the Lusophone world, with special emphasis on Brazil. Designed as an intensive introductory course equivalent to Portuguese I and II, it is a Portuguese course for native speakers of Spanish or speakers of other languages who have a native-like command of Spanish.

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Arts and Humanities
Languages
Social Science
World Cultures
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Dominique, Nilma
Date Added:
09/01/2013
Adopt-a-Book Activity
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This resource is useful for students who can visit rare books in special collections libraries. Teachers and students of book history, literature, and art history might find this resource useful.

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Ancient History
Art History
Arts and Humanities
History
Literature
World Cultures
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Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Date Added:
09/27/2019
Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition
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En este curso el estudiante perfeccionará su comunicación oral y escrita mediante el estudio y la discusión de temas relacionados al impacto social y cultural de la ciencia y la tecnología en ciertas sociedades hispanas. Algunos de los temas a tratar son los efectos de los cambios tecnológicos en la estructura familiar y comunitaria, en las relaciones entre los sexos, en la identidad personal y cultural, en el mundo natural y en los sistemas de valores, la religión, la educación y el trabajo. También se examinan y discuten diversas actitudes hacia la innovación tecnológica y científica así como las ramificaciones éticas de las decisiones tecnológicas.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Business and Communication
Communication
Languages
Social Science
World Cultures
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Groeger, Margarita
Date Added:
02/01/2014
Advanced Topics: Plotting Terror in European Culture
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This interdisciplinary course surveys modern European culture to disclose the alignment of literature, opposition, and revolution. Reaching back to the foundational representations of anarchism in nineteenth-century Europe (Kleist, Conrad) the curriculum extends through the literary and media representations of militant organizations in the 1970s and 80s (Italy’s Red Brigade, Germany’s Red Army Faction, and the Real Irish Republican Army). In the middle of the term students will have the opportunity to hear a lecture by Margarethe von Trotta, one of the most important filmmakers who has worked on terrorism. The course concludes with a critical examination of the ways that certain segments of European popular media have returned to the “radical chic” that many perceive to have exhausted itself more than two decades ago.

Subject:
Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Graphic Arts
History
Literature
Reading Literature
Social Science
World Cultures
World History
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Scribner, Charity
Date Added:
02/01/2004
Advanced Topics in Hispanic Literature and Film: The Films of Luis Buñuel
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This course considers films spanning the entire career of pioneering Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900–1983), from his silent surrealist classic of 1929, Un perro andaluz, to his last film, Ese oscuro objeto del deseo (1977). We pay special attention to his Mexican period, in exile, and the films he made in, and about, Spain, including his work in documentary. It explores Buñuel’s early friendship with painter Salvador Dalí and poet Federico García Lorca, surrealist aesthetics, the influence of Freud’s ideas on dreams and sexuality, and the director’s corrosive criticism of bourgeois society and the Catholic church. We will focus on historical contexts and relevant film criticism.
About This Course on OpenCourseWare
The instructor of this course, Elizabeth Garrels, is a Professor Emeritus at MIT. She retired in 2014 after 35 years at the Institute. Professor Garrels taught this course for over 15 years, and it evolved over this time period. Normally, a course on OCW represents the version of a course taught during a specific semester and year. However, for this course we hope to represent the evolution of the course during the main years it was taught. The materials you see here are not from a particular iteration of the course, but are drawn from all of the years the course was taught.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Career and Technical Education
Film and Music Production
History
Social Science
Visual Arts
World Cultures
World History
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Garrels, Elizabeth
Date Added:
09/01/2013
African Traditional Religions: Ifa
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This textbook on Ifa, a traditional African religion, was authored by Dr. Will Coleman of the Interdenominational Theological Center. Help and contributions were given by Awo Fa'lokun Fatunmbi, and Oscar Daniel and Brad Ost of the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library.

Subject:
Religious Studies
World Cultures
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Brad Ost
Will Coleman, Ph.D.
Date Added:
03/02/2022
Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott
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Jason Allen offers a comparative discussion of two important Caribbean poets and playwrights, Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott, to emphasize the impact of Caribbean literature upon the postcolonial world. By using biographical and historical detail to support his analysis of some of Cesaire and Walcott's key texts, Allen offers insight into what it means to be a Caribbean writer - looking back to a colonial past, and forward to a global future. This audio recording is part the Interviews on Great Writers series presented by Oxford University Podcasts.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Literature
World Cultures
Material Type:
Lecture
Provider:
University of Oxford
Provider Set:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Author:
Jason Allen, Dominic Davies
Date Added:
08/24/2012
Al-Bab (Portal)
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Al-Bab is a portal website designed to introduce non-Arabs to Arab culture by providing links to news sources, country profiles, articles, and a blog on Middle East current events. There are also specific links related to learning Arabic: dictionaries, language classes, textbooks, and other information pertaining to the study of Arabic. A free e-book, The Birth of Modern Yemen, is available for download.

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Arts and Humanities
Languages
Literature
World Cultures
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
British-Yemeni Society
Date Added:
10/11/2013
American Consumer Culture
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This class examines how and why twentieth-century Americans came to define the ‰ŰĎgood life‰Ű through consumption, leisure, and material abundance. We will explore how such things as department stores, nationally advertised brand-name goods, mass-produced cars, and suburbs transformed the American economy, society, and politics. The course is organized both thematically and chronologically. Each period deals with a new development in the history of consumer culture. Throughout we explore both celebrations and critiques of mass consumption and abundance.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
History
U.S. History
World Cultures
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Meg Jacobs
Date Added:
02/16/2011
Angolan Civil War
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This video explains how and why Fidel Castro supported the MPLA in Angola from 1975 to 2002. The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale was the largest military confrontation in Africa after World War II. The civil war in Angola was one of the longest and bloodiest conflicts of the twentieth century.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Cultural Geography
Ethnic Studies
History
Political Science
Social Science
World Cultures
World History
Material Type:
Lecture
Lesson
Module
Unit of Study
Author:
Anupama Mande
Date Added:
07/10/2020
Anthropology of the Middle East
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This course examines traditional performances of the Arabic-speaking populations of the Middle East and North Africa. Starting with the history of the ways in which the West has discovered, translated and written about the Orient, we will consider how power and politics play roles in the production of culture, narrative and performance. This approach assumes that performance, verbal art, and oral literature lend themselves to spontaneous adaptation and to oblique expression of ideas and opinions whose utterance would otherwise be censorable or disruptive. In particular we will be concerned with the way traditional performance practices are affected by and respond to the consequences of modernization.
Topics include oral epic performance, sacred narrative, Koranic chant performance, the folktale, solo performance, cultural production and resistance.

Subject:
Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
History
Literature
Performing Arts
Reading Literature
Social Science
World Cultures
World History
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Slyomovics, Susan
Date Added:
02/01/2004
Arabalicious
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Arabalicious is a website full of resources for teachers of Arabic, run by Taoufiq Cherkaoui. The website includes PowerPoints available for download on concepts such as telling time, fruits and vegetables, culture, and basic greetings, to name a few. Worksheets to go along with the PowerPoints are also available for free download. The website further includes pictures that are available with the author's permission and some postings on available jobs for Arabic instructors as per 2012.

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Arts and Humanities
Languages
World Cultures
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Taoufiq Cherkaoui
Date Added:
10/14/2013
Arabic I
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This is a textbook for beginning Arabic language learning. The textbook is divided into twelve lessons. Each lesson focuses on an activity and common theme to introduce the basics of Arabic. Each lesson starts with a short video, which you'll be asked to watch. To help you understand the video, each lesson also includes a transcript (in English), a list of vocabulary (with audio clips), and language and grammar notes.

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Arts and Humanities
Languages
World Cultures
Material Type:
Full Course
Textbook
Provider:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education
Provider Set:
LEARN NC Lesson Plans
Date Added:
06/04/2012
Arabic Lessons from Musings on Arab Culture
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This blog is from an American woman living and working in Saudi Arabia. It includes information about living and working in Saudi Arabia as well as her travels elsewhere in the Middle East. This particular section of the blog includes lessons on Arabic, which are all transliterated. Conversations that are transliterated and translated, vocabulary lists, and cultural information are all included. The lessons include one on bread, one on time and the concept of time, and one on New Year's Resolutions.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
World Cultures
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Michele La Morte-Shbat
Date Added:
10/14/2013
Arabic Level 3, Activity 02: "At home / في البيت" (Face-to-Face/Online)
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In this activity, students will be practicing the home vocabulary with a special focus on how they would use the verbs, استطيع، اعود. They will be having a small discussion with each other asking and answering questions.Can-Do Statements:I recognize most of the “Home” vocabulary to describe my home.I can use both verbs اسْتَطَاعَ، عَادَ conjugated with subject pronouns.I can talk about my favorite spot at my home. 

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Language Education (ESL)
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Languages
World Cultures
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Sara Bakari
Amber Hoye
Date Added:
03/17/2023
Arabic Level 3, Activity 03: "Talking about Myself&Others / اتكلم عن نفسي والآخرين" (Face-to-Face/Online)
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In this activity, students will be practicing how to talk about themselves after reviewing the possessive pronouns, and then they will read a character card and share information about them.Can-Do Statements:I can talk about myself with a friend/classmate.I can ask and answer questions about work and my favorite activities.I can share my hobby/work/where I live with someone.

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Language Education (ESL)
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Languages
World Cultures
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Sara Bakari
Amber Hoye
Date Added:
03/17/2023
Arabic Level 3, Activity 04: "Numbers / الأرقام" (Face-to-Face/Online)
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In this activity, students will practice Arabic numbers from 1 to 50. they will be able to accurately pronounce them, as well as perform basic arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) using Arabic numbers.Can-Do Statements:I can recognize and identify Arabic numbers from 1 to 50.I can accurately pronounce Arabic numbers from 1 to 50.I can perform basic arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) using Arabic numbers.

Subject:
Language Education (ESL)
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Languages
World Cultures
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Sara Bakari
Amber Hoye
Date Added:
03/31/2023
Arabic Level 3, Activity 05 "Places/الأماكن" (Face-to-Face/Online)
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In this activity, students will practice talking and asking questions with a partner about different middle eastern places. students will also practice asking for directions.Can-Do Statements:I can talk about different places with a friend/classmate.I can ask about different places with someone.I can ask for directions when I need to go somewhere.

Subject:
Language Education (ESL)
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Languages
World Cultures
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Sara Bakari
Amber Hoye
Date Added:
04/06/2023