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The original was posted on /r/professors by /u/Outrageous-Ad-9703 on 2023-10-07 01:07:35.
My Screen Studies 101 (equivalent) unit gets heaps of students taking it as an elective. The unit covers narratology, the formal aspects of film and how they can be used to create meaning/feeling, and theories of film authorship, art, and genre. Probably too much for a single first year unit, but that’s the reality of an arts unit these days.
Genuine introduction from a student in our first tutorial: “I hate watching movies. I think they’re too long and boring. But this will be easy because I’m studying psychology, which is more advanced than studying movies.”
This is not the first time someone has said this in my unit. The idea psychology is more ‘advanced’ than my media and screen theory units is a common, and personally quite offensive, statement.
Needless to say, these students often perform the worst because they don’t do the work.