[Pols-announce] FW: Psyc 993: Social Psychology and Film

[Haider-Markel, Donald Patrick]

FYI grad students

-----Original Message-----
From: Molina, Ludwin E 
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 3:27 PM
To: Haider-Markel, Donald Patrick <dhmarkel at ku.edu>
Subject: Psyc 993: Social Psychology and Film

Hi Don:
        
If possible, can you please share the email below to grad students in your department? I want to advertise my grad seminar on “Social Psychology and Film” (Psyc 993; course #28065) to increase enrollment. Thanks for considering this request!

Best,
Ludwin
        
        
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Hi grad students:
        
I want to draw your attention to a grad seminar I am teaching this Fall 2018.  It is called “Social Psychology and Film” (Psyc 993) and we will be meeting on Wednesdays from 2-4:50 pm to screen a movie, read a couple of relevant psychological articles to that week's movie, and, more importantly, have a discussion based on that material.
        
What are the goal(s) of the course?
First, I think it is important to turn to resources outside of psychology to help shape our thinking about the human condition. Second, I want to propose to you that the arts – in this instance, film – affords us insight into understanding psychological phenomena and, more broadly, what it means to be human. Given the visual culture we live in I think it is essential to have critical "ways of seeing" and interrogate the ideologies, social representations, cultural stereotypes, power, etc. that are at play in film. We will use a film each week to do some/all of the following: (1) provide specific instances of social behavior as they take place in a specific environment; (2) present vivid and memorable examples of human behavior that psychological theory may help clarify; (3) specific portrayals of social issues in the mass media, social representations of groups, and how they are perceived by the public; and (4) present issues/questions that may be relatively untouched by (social) psychological research. 
        
Course Format: 
This will be a seminar course meeting once a week. Class time will be dedicated to watching a film and then having a discussion synthesizing the film and the week’s readings. We will also have a guest speaker or two and some field trips to the movie theater and museum(s) on KU campus.
    
Let me know if there are any questions. Thanks.
    
Best,
Ludwin