Social Science - Hotel Rwanda

General Education Capstone Course

Event/Experience Details and Guideline Form

Gen. Ed. Category Event should be listed under: Social Science

SCC Competency addressed by event: Draw on the social sciences to evaluate the diversity and complexity of contemporary local and global issues to provide a better understanding of the student’s relationship to those social issues.

Event experience Title: View the Film – HOTEL RWANDA

Anticipated Learning Outcome. 

Students will gain an understanding of the relationship of economics and economic power to complex social and economic issues in Africa and how they relate to current issues in other parts of the world.

Guidelines for accomplishment of event

After viewing the film, consider the following questions:

• What were the economic conditions that contributed to the situation portrayed in the film?
• What role does economics play in racism and how is this demonstrated in the film?
• How could such a thing have happened?
• How do the economic disparities between industrialized nations and third world counties impact situations such as those portrayed in the film?
• What are the lessons learned?
• Would the world community respond any differently today?
• Is it happening again?
• What is it about us that makes for such savagery? (Relate this to economics.)
• How might changes in economic conditions preclude this happening again in the same or in some other part of the world?  Is there hope?

Write a two to three page journal entry. Share it with whomever will listen.

Provide at least one the following: 

Event Contact Name: Local Video Store

Event Contact Phone number: Check phone book

Event Contact Web site URL: www.hotelrwanda.com

SCC Event Creator: BruceWelz

Estimated Time for full completion (include: making contact/appointment; attending activity; travel; and journal consideration and entry) 3 – 4 hours