GEN 325 - Core II: Love and Lust

Semester Hours: 3

We live in a world that celebrates love, but sometimes condemns the feelings and actions that accompany this powerful emotion. This course examines ideas of romantic and erotic love from multiple disciplinary perspectives to explain what exactly love is, how it affects us, and the roles it plays in cultures worldwide. Our class texts will be both academic and popular, from science and philosophy to advertisements and romantic comedies. Overall, the class will try to do the one thing that many say one can never do with love: understand it.

Pre-requisites: GEN 130 - Core I: Knowing the Self, sophomore standing or above, and GEN 112 - Composition II: Argumentation and Research.