MACS 199

Spring 2012

Part of Term B
Mar 12-May 2
Undergraduate Open Seminar
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Credit: 0 TO 5 hours.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours in separate semesters if topics vary.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
57029
Lecture-Discussion
R
5:00PM -7:50PM
TR
Armory
Reisner, A
Part of Term:
B
Date Range:
03/12/12-05/02/12
Credit:
3 hours
Section Title:
Watching the Environment
Section Info:
Course views environmental films as an active process, wherein viewers critically evaluate representations of the environment and of environmental activism. Approach is multi-disciplinary, combining the physical and social sciences understanding of environmental issues, with social science's research on credibility, and film theory's understanding of the constraints that narrative form, production routines, financing and distribution put on representing environmental problems and activism. Students will compare how physical and social scientists' explain environmental problems and solutions (presented in readings) with the presentations of the same problems and solutions shown in film. An emphasis of the class is that the credibility of film is earned, rather than given. During the course participants are expected to become familiar with both background information on the science of selected environmental issues, and the constraints of producing special interest andbroad distribution film.
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