Education 167 - Education and Film

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 first-year students in the Exploring Society RAP in Thoreau Hall. Students in Exploring Society RAP in Thoreau Hall will enroll together in "Education and Film" (Education 167). What do movies teach us about education? In this course we will examine Hollywood representations of teaching and schooling, analyze film as both a product and producer of American society and culture, and conduct media analysis based on race, class, gender, and sexuality, and more!

See https://www.umass.edu/rap/exploring-society-rap