Teaching gender issues with chick flicks in FTKW, UMK

The use of questionnaries and interviews, student’s porfolio, and academic transcript are not sufficient to know background of students and their previous knowledges.
The objective of the research is to use of movies as supporting criteria to know student’s prior knowledge, and also other useful information to improve student’s performance, and other useful information such as communication skills, high order thinking and valuing. The survey method was undertaken in 20 third year product design students and 9 fourth year multimedia students, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Malaysia.

Three questions were used after showing three movies; Persepolis, Monalisa Smile and Perempuan berkalong sorban ; (1) What is your impression of this movie? (2) How the story is told?

Most student in the first and third year students can answer the questions but they can not know the theme of the three movies that focused on feminism issues. Regarding students answer, these movie test will help lecturer to access student performance which can not reveal in the quetionnaires and interviews. The results of the test show that movies can improve student’s knowledge and skills and also high order thinking.