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Discourses of Love: Antiquity to the Renaissance
| Semester and Year | FA 2012 |
| Course Number | IDSEM-UG1122 |
| Section | 001 |
| Instructor | Bella Mirabella |
| Days | Tue,Thu |
| Time | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM |
| Units | 4.0 |
| Level | U |
| Foundation Requirement | HUM, PREMOD, EARLY |
Notes/Restrictions
Open to sophomores only.
Description
This course explores the impulse to define, understand, contain, praise, analyze, lament, restrain, and express love. Through a study of philosophy, poetry, drama, religion, art, and music we will endeavor to discourse on the meaning of this profound emotion. However, in order to understand the place of love within the lives of humans, we need to look at love in its historic, cultural, social, and political contexts from Sappho and Plato to Shakespeare. We want to consider Love's multiple roles with regard to desire, seduction, betrothal, marriage, manners, morals, political power, and the pursuit of wisdom, as well as its role in class, gender, and race. Possible readings could include Plato’s Symposium , mystical writings, the poetry of Sappho, the stories of Marie de France, selections from Dante, as well as two plays of Shakespeare.
Syllabus
Course Type
Interdisciplinary Seminars (IDSEM-UG)
