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Spring 2018
Apr 19, 2024 |
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| FYSE 1030 - Love & Friendship |
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*Love and Friendship*
We will start with Plato's /Phaedrus/, to learn about love (eros) and its relationship to speaking and writing, followed by Plato’s /Symposium/, also on love. Next, we read Aristotle's /Ethics/ to consider friendship in relation to politics and philosophy. Then we will read: a Shakespeare Sonnet; Montaigne's essay, "/Of Friendship/"; Bacon’s essay “/Of Friendship/,”; Shakespeare's /Antony and Cleopatra/ and /As You Like It/; Jane Austen’s /Mansfield Park/; and George Eliot’s /Middlemarch/. We will also study parts of /The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric/, by Sister Miriam Joseph. 3 hrs. sem.
0.000 OR 1.000 Credit hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours 0.000 TO 2.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar Interdisciplinary Division First-Year Seminar Program Department Course Attributes: CW, EUR, LIT Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Colleges: Undergraduate Must be enrolled in one of the following Classifications: 0-2.99 Credits |
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