PSCI 297 - Special Studies

Spring of 2023:
This course will examine the role and impact that race, films and the mass media of cinema have on American society, politics, and political culture, including how these manipulate and influence, and ultimately, impact and shape public opinion in American society. The course also examines and explores how the mass media has, historically, through production of feature and documentary films, helps form the perceptions and opinions, positive or negative, that majority and minority racial and ethnic groups have about American society and politics and minority-majority group relations in the United States. In this course we will be viewing and critiquing several classic feature and documentary films, produced over time, focused on presenting and examining significant topics and critically important subject matter, involving the themes of race, culture, class, intergroup relations and society in the United States.
General Education Area: Social Science