文档介绍：Movies and Movie Sequences
In the Finance Curriculum
Summary Report for
Summer 2006 Instructional Innovation Grant
Alfred Mettler
Department of Finance
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Movies and Movie Sequences In the Finance Curriculum
Over the last couple of years I have regularly used movies/short movie sequences in the classroom, and the feedback from the audience was always extremely positive. Undergraduate students, graduate students, and even executives were fascinated when they either watched finance-related documentaries or when they saw how seemingly “not-finance-related” movies did relate very well to finance topics that were taught in an introductory or advanced finance class.
Based on these ad hoc experiences I decided to pursue the topic of “Movies and Movie Sequences in the Finance Curriculum” in a more systematic way. The final goal of this project is to publish a booklet/DVD containing the necessary material/documentation for a Finance instructor who wants to integrate movie sequences in his/her teaching. The project proved to be more time consuming than anticipated, and right now about ¾ of the work is done. I will continue to work on it during Summer 07 and I anticipate that the booklet will be publishable by Fall 2007. Following is a summary of what has been done so far.
Project Steps
In a first step I have identified three princ