Utah’s Westminster College Offers " " Class Where Students Will ‘Watch " " Films ...

[LevelUP]

Utah’s Westminster College Offers ‘Censored’ Class Where Students Will ‘Watch Censored Films Together'
https://www.foxnews.com/us/utah-westmins...s-together

I think this course is in the AOS of the underwater basket weaving degree.

Some funny comments
1. Our tax dollars "hard at work".
2. Get off my back, Mom - I'm just doing homework!
3. The nice thing about this class is that they will let you withdraw right up until you are almost finished….

Let's try to keep the comments as clean as possible.

[bluebooger]

once saw Blazing Saddles on tv and they had the fart sounds in the fart scene silenced
stupid

[ss20ts]

This is why they're watching the "movies":
to discuss the sexualization of race, class, and gender and as an experimental, radical art form

They'll probably also pee their pants laughing as those types of "movies" are so goofy. The storylines and plots are horrible. They're so bad that they're hilarious.

[AllThose299s]

Film 300 is Special Topics in Film, so... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Film 300O seems about right.

[Johann]

I just don't think it's THAT controversial for a college to do this. But this is Utah. Who knows?

Back in the mid-80's, here in Canada, I was going to Community College - evening classes. This was pre-Internet. I took six or seven psych courses and one of them had quite a bit of graphic sexual material. During the course, we saw a couple of XXX films - and yes, there was (psych) learning to be had from the films and particularly, interviews with the actors. We also saw films of various sexual activities happening in labs and clinical settings - closeups, etc. as necessary for learning. Some of the topics we covered were very new then - and further studies have increased the sexual knowledge base remarkably. That has done a lot of good.

I will admit, that was an evening class and students were generally quite a bit older than usual college age. I was around 43. One or two students expressed their dislike for the films on moral / religious grounds, but nobody quit the class or sued the College. Nothing ever appeared in the press.

In today's America, I think there could be a lot of politics-and-religion-fueled pushback about this. I hope Westminster College is prepared.

[Courcelles]

Westminster is a private college, so I guess they can offer whatever they and their accreditor consider valid collegiate work.

And in the context of film studies, this strikes me as a valid topic — despite that places like Fox will sensationalize it to rile up conservatives.

[Johann]

Westminster is a private college, so I guess they can offer whatever they and their accreditor consider valid collegiate work.

And in the context of film studies, this strikes me as a valid topic — despite that places like Fox will sensationalize it to rile up conservatives.

Well-said. I'm sure that's the intention - and exactly what's happening with this! 

[LevelUP]

Westminster is a private college, so I guess they can offer whatever they and their accreditor consider valid collegiate work.

And in the context of film studies, this strikes me as a valid topic — despite that places like Fox will sensationalize it to rile up conservatives.

Looks like you were right.

Well shortly after the story broke, it become political lol.
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2022/4/21/2...dace-owens

[ReyMysterioso]

It's a multibillion-dollar industry that has an effect on sexual behavior trends and cultural norms. It would be foolish not to study it academically.