COM-2030 Film and Philosophy
This course explores how film can be used as a vehicle to examine philosophical and political ideas of the past and present. Through films the class will view, the course seeks to cultivate the disposition to self-reflection and provide the tools to ensure such self-reflection remains productive and motivational. Students will identify and appreciate key philosophic questions, especially those which concern the pursuit of the "reflective life," as presented in both film and text; they will be asked to express and argue coherently for, both in writing and orally, their own conclusions and opinions on related topics.