Education 167 - Education and Film

Spring
2020
02
4.00
Jamie Garner
TU TH 1:00PM 2:15PM
UMass Amherst
42496
Melville Room 130
jgarner@umass.edu
What do movies like Mean Girls, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Freedom Writers teach us about education? Do the way films represent school, students, and teaching reflect or reproduce our views about particular students and schools? What and how do movies teach us and why does it matter? This course introduces students to selected essential topics in modern educational theory and practice using depictions of teachers, students, and schools in movies as springboards for inquiry (Gen. Ed. SB, DU)
Open to Undergraduate Freshmen only.
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Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.
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