FYS FLM02 - What Is a Campus?

4 Hour(s) Credit
The campus is - or is about to become - central to our lives. Still, we don’t often get the chance to step back and examine that structure: what a campus is, or what it was, or what it could be. Use the medium of cinema to have a broad discussion about the history, present and future of the campus. Watch select movies depicting campus life to investigate broader historical developments, public perceptions and political realities of the American higher education system. Discussion topics range from the idea of the campus as a hotbed for political change to that of a replacement for the nuclear family, from disability and access to “hookup culture” and Greek life.
Four hours per week
Meets General Education: First Year Seminar (FYS)
May Not Receive Credit for Both if a second FYS is taken. Taking a second FYS will replace the original FYS grade, regardless of topic.