Utah College course where students watch p*rn with professors exposed

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Westminster College, a private college in Salt Lake City, Utah, is presently trending on the internet for the unlikeliest of reasons: porn!

The 147-year-old institution comprises four schools: the School of Arts and Sciences, the Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business, the School of Education, and the School of Nursing and Health Sciences.

But tucked in the Film Studies program of the School of Arts and Sciences is a two-unit course titled, Film-300O: Porn.

The course became an internet sensation when American author and cultural critic, James Lindsay tweeted:

The course is one of two courses under Film-300: Special Topics In Film, which also included Film-300Z: Horror Films.

A synopsis of Film-300O: Porn reads, “Hard core pornography is as American as apple pie and more popular than Sunday night football. 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.”

As expected, many Twitter users have been going back and forth on the relevance of the course.

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