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Class number:
3152
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Title: Empires of the Senses |
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Department: Language and Culture Studies |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 12 |
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Current enrollment: 5 |
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Available seats: 7 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 21, 2022 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM, MC - 309 |
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Instructor(s): Del Puppo, Dario |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements |
Course Description:
Great literature stimulates the imagination and creates the illusion of transporting us to faraway places and to events that happened long ago. Different cultures throughout history have represented sensory experience differently from one another. In this course, we will discuss works of literature that raise such questions as: "Can we hear 17th C music like people did then?", "How has taste changed over time and in different cultures?", "We preserve visual artifacts of the past in museums, but how and why might we preserve past sounds and smells?" "Do race and ethnicity impact the senses and, if so, how?" Writers include: Epicurus, Lucretius, Giovanni Boccaccio, Marcel Proust, Patrick Süskind, and Toni Morrison. |