Sociology Through Films ((3))

Catalog description

This course will examine sociological concepts through the use of film. Films will be viewed and discussed weekly. Films will focus on such areas as family relations, alcohol and drug addiction, aging, crime and delinquency, gender issues, race and ethnic relations, the workplace, and urban development. This course serves as a way to understand the social world (locally, nationally, and globally) through a sociological lens. Specifically, we will use film to learn and understand key substantive areas found in sociology, such as social class/inequality, race-ethnicity, gender, sexuality, work/occupations, globalization, and social change. The driving questions for this course are the following: How does film address sociological issues? And if film does, indeed, address sociological issues, does it do so appropriately?