Utah College Offers Porn Course, Students Will Analyze ‘The Art’ Of Hardcore Pornographic Films

A Utah college has set the internet ablaze after it was revealed that a course on porn will soon be offered to enrolled and interested students. Apparently, the class will have students analyzing “the art” of hardcore pornographic films.

The School & The Porn Class
It’s reported that Westminster College, a private liberal arts institution in Salt Lake City, Utah, will be offering an entire class on porn in the 2022-2023 academic school year. Together, “students will watch pornographic films together” as part of the class.

On the school’s site, under courses offered for the Film school, it shows a class titled “FILM 300O: Porn.” The detailed course description 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.”

Now, as part of the course curriculum, students are to watch pornographic films and together, they will discuss the sexualization of race, class, and gender. In full, it reads, “We will watch pornographic films together and discuss the sexualization of race, class, and gender and as an experimental, radical art form.”

Per the college’s undergraduate courses catalog, the course will offer two credits for those students who chose to enroll in the course slated to begin in the 2022-2023 academic year. According to the same course catalog, the college also offers a four-credit class called “Sex on Film,” which explores “what sex on film can teach us about social conventions in relationship to law, science, politics and religion.”

Utah College Spokesperson Speaks

Now, a spokesperson for Westminster College spoke out and told Fox News how the school “occasionally offers elective courses like this as an opportunity to analyze social issues.”

In full, the spokesperson explained, “Westminster College occasionally offers elective courses like this as an opportunity to analyze social issues. As part of this analysis, Westminster College and universities across the county often examine potentially offensive topics like pornography 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. This course will help students learn how to think critically about the influence of digital media culture.”

After the course seemingly disappeared from the course catalog’s FILM section, many users thought it was a prank. However, the Chief Marketing Officer for Westminster College says the class is happening and moved to a different location on the site.

Sheila Rappazzo Yorkin told USA TODAY that the course should not have been listed in the first location, but the class is still taking place as scheduled. Yorkin says there were 14 students who registered for the two-credit course as of April 21. However, “due to fear of harassment,” the name of the faculty member teaching the course has been removed from the listing.

Yorkin adds that along with other higher learning institutions, Westminster “often explores 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.”