CRIT 336 Bodily and Spiritual Love

3 credits 45.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course

The subject of this course is the language of love from Greek antiquity down to the early twentieth century. We will study ways in which the language of bodily and spiritual longing interweaves the idioms and conventions of both worldly and spiritual discourse. Attention to issues of gender, to women’s newly discovered agency as writers and thinkers, and to the creation of alternative identities amidst changing social alignments and conditions.

Prerequisites COMP*102, COMP*102D, COMP*102E, COMP*112, COMP*112H, or COMP*112W

This course is not repeatable for credit.