Faculty First Year Seminars 191EW6 - Two Thumbs Up: Movies

This course will primarily be about our relationships to movies. More specifically, it will focus on how we watch, talk about, form connections through, and think about cinema. Rather than treat them as a form of passive entertainment, we will discuss how films can be a generative space where we form community, process our thoughts and ideas, and learn about ourselves and the world. This course won?t be about film studies and won?t have required screenings, rather we will focus on why we love movies, what movies mean to us and to culture, and what shapes the contemporary conversations around cinema. To do so, we will be reading film reviews and articles about film culture while also watching clips and interviews with various people in the industry. We may also listen to podcasts about contemporary cinema. Additionally, you will be asked to keep track of and write about the movies you watch throughout the semester. All in all, this is a course for those of you who love cinema and wish to have a chance to talk more about it and explore our thoughts and feelings through movies.

First-year (R1ST)