I think you should go to each professor, or email them, and explain the situation. It doesn't have to be a very long or complicated email, just "I saw my husband die in a fairly gory way and as a result get anxious/panicky if I'm surprised by medical details or gore in a film. I would appreciate warning if we're going to watch a medical-related or bloody movie in class, as I may need to look away from these parts of the action. I would also appreciate it if I could avoid assignments that would require me to watch these parts of the movie in detail, instead focusing on less personally-upsetting features of the drama." Something like that. You might not want to "ask to avoid" certain types of assignment, instead re-wording that part to focus on the type of assignment you'd like to do - but then again, you might consider that overly restrictive? Because there are violent movies that wouldn't upset you too much (non-gorey martial arts?) that you could still analyse from the point of view of the shock to the audience.
Maybe dump my 5 minute suggestion email into a post in your lj and get your other friends to poke at it?
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Date: 2007-08-30 04:46 pm (UTC)I think you should go to each professor, or email them, and explain the situation. It doesn't have to be a very long or complicated email, just "I saw my husband die in a fairly gory way and as a result get anxious/panicky if I'm surprised by medical details or gore in a film. I would appreciate warning if we're going to watch a medical-related or bloody movie in class, as I may need to look away from these parts of the action. I would also appreciate it if I could avoid assignments that would require me to watch these parts of the movie in detail, instead focusing on less personally-upsetting features of the drama." Something like that. You might not want to "ask to avoid" certain types of assignment, instead re-wording that part to focus on the type of assignment you'd like to do - but then again, you might consider that overly restrictive? Because there are violent movies that wouldn't upset you too much (non-gorey martial arts?) that you could still analyse from the point of view of the shock to the audience.
Maybe dump my 5 minute suggestion email into a post in your lj and get your other friends to poke at it?