a video montage on dvd introducing philosophy modules
cm332 & cm544
taught by  Dr Helena Sheehan   in  School of Communications
at  Dublin City University
made with project award from the DCU teaching & learning fund in 2003
edited by Tom O'Dwyer

To play a web version of the dvd (a 25 minute quicktime movie), click here for 54 mg video or here for 17 mg video.
For either, it is best to have a broadband internet connection.

chapters, slides &  music credits

1) introduction
    Question - Moody Blues
2) the making of the modern mind
    The Four Seasons - Vivaldi
3) empiricism
    The Scientist - Coldplay
4) existentialsm
    Sounds of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
5) marxism
    The Internationale (Pottier/Degeyter) - Alistair Hulett
    USSRNational Anthem (Alexandrov/Mikhalov) - Red Army Choir
    Dictatorship of Capital - Alistair Hulett
6) postmodernism
    New Age of the Fist - Alistair Hulett
7) eurocentrism
    ESouth Africa - New South Africa / Mbongeni Ngema
8) the rise of the repressed in the history of knowledge
         class, race, gender & the production of knowledge
    So Strong - Labi Siffre
9) conclusion & credits

Many thanks to Tom O'Dwyer who made this video. I gave him dv tapes of recorded lectures, my powerpoint slides, many files of songs and images related to the themes of the lectures and a selection of student diaries and commissioned him to put them together into an overview to introduce new students to these modules.  He did so in a most conscientious and creative way. Thanks to the DCU teaching & learning committee for giving me the project award that provided the resources to do this and to Dr Barry McMullin and all in the office of the dean of teaching & learning for processing this. Thanks to the DCU school of communications for the innovative atmosphere and additional resources and especially to the technical department for facilitating our many needs. Thanks most of all to DCU students who have undertaken a philosophical journey in doing these modules for making my efforts seem worthwhile. Finally, outside of DCU, special thanks to Alistair Hulett, whose voice comes on to the sound track three times, for his extraordinary ability to deal with complex ideas in taut and lucid songs.  HS
 

E-mail: helena.sheehan@dcu.ie