A small liberal arts college in Salt Lake City, Utah, has removed a listing of a film class on pornography from its website after the course drew viral attention.
Film Studies 300, a course at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah, covers various topics in film in a number of sections of the course, including comedy, apocalypses, and horror films.
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But a two-credit section drew viral attention because of its rather unique topic: pornography.
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“Hard core pornography is as American as apple pie and more popular than Sunday night football,” the course description reads. “Our approach to this billion-dollar industry is as both a cultural phenomenon that reflects and reinforces sexual inequalities (but holds the potential to challenge sexual and gender norms) and as an art form that requires serious contemplation. We will watch pornographic films together and discuss the sexualization of race, class, and gender and as an experimental, radical art form.”
The course was previously listed on a section of the college’s website that listed its undergraduate courses but was removed sometime after the listing began drawing viral attention.
But a spokesperson for the university claimed the listing had not been removed and provided the Washington Examiner with a separate link to the university’s online catalog that still showed the course.
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“Westminster College occasionally offers elective courses like this as an opportunity to analyze social issues,” the college said in a statement. “As part of this analysis, Westminster College along with other institutions of higher learning across the county and the world often explore challenging subject matter to further understand their pervasiveness and impact. Descriptions of these courses, while alarming to some readers, help students decide if they wish to engage in serious investigation of controversial subjects.”
