When I first saw news snippets about the University of Iowa offering a "pornography course" they made it sound like a how-to filmmaking class. Not so much. It's a critique of how porn and porn themes have made the transition from the adult bookstore into mainstream media advertising, both the pros and the cons. If I know the UI it's going to have quite a dose of feminist theory injected as well. If you think about it, it's not a bad idea to analyze how sex, subliminal messages in ads, the "mainstreaming" of Playboy, and the pervasiveness of feminine objectification can affect our collective consciousness.
State 29 blogs on it here, he's got the full course description.
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