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COLL 177 001 (CRN: 26930)
THE ART OF WAR FILMS
Long Title: THE ART OF WAR FILMS: CRITICALLY ENGAGING WITH FICTIONALIZED WAR MEDIA (MARTEL)
Department: College Courses
Instructors:
Meeting: 6:00PM - 6:50PM M (11-JAN-2027 - 23-APR-2027)
Part of Term: Full Term - No WL Purge
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Course Type: Seminar
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 1
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Section Max Enrollment: 19
Section Enrolled: 0
Waitlisted: 0 (Max 99)
Current members of the waitlist have priority for available seats.
Enrollment data as of: 2-NOV-2026 6:31AM
Final Exam: No Final Exam
Description: War movies and TV shows shape the ways in which their viewers understand history, the nature of war, and at times their own identity. This influence makes critical consumption of the war genre paramount. In this course, students will watch selected movies or shows, such as HBO’s Band of Brothers, Elem Klimov’s Come and See, and Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down, and then participate in class discussions connected to that week's topic. Through this process students will develop their individual ideology on the purpose and quality of war media, whether war media can in practice be 'anti-war', and will be able to examine the influences on and the kind of propaganda, tropes, and stereotypes present in war media. At the end of the course, students will pick a piece of war media and analyze it using all of the tools developed in class.