Worldviews Through Movies, Music, Art, and Social Media

This online course offers a unique approach to studying contemporary worldviews and issues by analyzing popular and classic movies, artworks, written works, and social media from a biblical perspective. The course aims to understand the historical, philosophical, and cultural context of various Western and Eastern worldviews, including deism, naturalism, secularism, existentialism, post-modernism, and others. Discussions will cover a range of topics, such as faith, reason, science, equality, freedom, rights, identity, and liberty. The course emphasizes understanding individual identity, purpose, and worth from various worldviews, past and present.

The media content for this course includes movies, TV shows, art, music, essays, and articles, all of which are selected to uncover selected worldviews and issues. Some mature themes may be portrayed in these media, so viewer discretion is advised. This course is offered at a discounted price and is available only to students taking at least one TPS core high school course. Students can take this course for graded credit or ungraded audit, and there are different requirements for each option.