HUMN400 Psychological Aspects of Cinema
This course mines the illustrative value of cinema, offering movies as valuable texts on human behavior and psychology. Located at the intersection of film and psychology, the course helps students understand psychological principles through film and also provides students with the tools and lenses to better appreciate films that explain and probe aspects of human behavior. Classic movies—some students will be familiar with and others that are more rare, will be viewed. The course examines the portrayal of psychological themes and conflicts in film and discusses how the film industry has employed psychological principles to create and market movies. Students leave this experience seeing film in a new way—as a mirror of life and the art—which may affect their aesthetic and entertainment choices, their evaluation of the movies they see as well as their deepened understanding of the human experience.
Corequisite
None
Distribution
Psychology
Notes
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