Course Catalog - 2011-2012

     

HIST 454 - HISTORY OF EMOTIONS

Long Title: COMPARATIVE APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY OF EMOTIONS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: From raging kings and cursing medieval monks to dance hall romances in modern Niger and "being cool," this seminar explores scholarship on emotions from a range of world regions and time periods in order to explore basic questions about the relationship between the body and culture, the individual and society.