| Course Title: Faith, Conscience and Politics: An Exploration Through Film |
| Start Date: 03/09/2020 End Date: 05/05/2020 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2020 |
| Description: This course focuses on the relationship between religion and politics, at levels both collective (organized religion) and individual (acts of conscience), using assigned films from different cultures as the launching points for exploration. After viewing the assigned film for the week, students will first respond in an online class forum and then come to class for deeper discussion. Through discussion, we'll touch on elements such as the relationship between political struggle and the church under oppressive regimes, how faith guides people's conscience under different political circumstances, why religion and faith have remained such powerful entities in modern politics, whether these films accurately portray the tension between church and state, and the role of individual conscience in civil disobedience. We will focus on the continuing power of religion in people's lives as they confront powerful and secular states, and we will look at the connections of religion to identity, ethnicity, and perceptions of morality. |
| Distribution(s): NO - Meets No Distrib. Rqmt , SI - Speaking-Intensive |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:2.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Tamar Grdzelidze | tgrdzeli@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 03/09/2020 - 05/05/2020 | Seminar | Thursday | 01:30PM - 04:20PM | SKNR - Skinner Hall | 102 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| To register in this class, please write to registrar@mtholyoke.edu during second-half add/drop week, which starts March 9 and ends March 13. |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| 1-2CR0001 | 1-2CR: One and two credit undergraduate courses | |
| 2HALF0001 | 2HALF: 2nd-half and non-standard start date courses | This course has a non-standard start date. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 15 | Enrollment: 5 | Available: 10 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| To be determined. |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |