Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2021-2022
FWIS 171 - MENTAL HEALTH IN LIT & FILM
Long Title: MENTAL HEALTH IN LITERATURE, FILM, AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Department: First-Year Writing Intensive
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Description: How have literature, film, and social media represented the changing history of mental health? Have our understandings of conditions like depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, and psychosis come to be thought as, themselves, essentially cinematic and literary experiences? Has social media now assumed some of this responsibility of narration and explanation? And if so, to what end?