The Ivy League's 13 Most Daffy Liberal College Courses | The Daily Caller
Harvard University, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality:
How many people would you count as your friends?
Facebook friends?
Facebook Close Friends?
Google+ friends?
Other network friends?
Friends with Benefits?
Does sex get in the way of friendship?
Are your friends mostly of the same sex/gender/sexuality?
Is it harder to make friends with persons of different sex/gender/sexuality?
How have friendships changed as people have become more embedded in online communities?
The course will begin with a consideration of current conversations about friendship, including popular TV serials — such as “Friends,” “Sex and the City,” “New Girl,” and “The Inbetweeners” — in which friendships are lived and variously configured through sexual relationships.
What could we make about meanings of friendship and sex, and their inter-relationship, in contemporary American culture?
We will read various texts that form historical threads that inform our contemporary concepts and practices of friendship and romance.
Readings will include Winthrop, Plato, Cicero, Biblical sources, St. Augustine, St. Aquinas, Montaigne, Bray, Marcus, Sedgwick, and Foucault.
Finally, we will return to contemporary America, asking what gay marriage, Facebook, and changing conceptions of masculinity/femininity are doing to/for friendship.
Note: Expected to be given in 2015–16.
This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Culture and Belief.
Facebook friends?
Facebook Close Friends?
Google+ friends?
Other network friends?
Friends with Benefits?
Does sex get in the way of friendship?
Are your friends mostly of the same sex/gender/sexuality?
Is it harder to make friends with persons of different sex/gender/sexuality?
How have friendships changed as people have become more embedded in online communities?
The course will begin with a consideration of current conversations about friendship, including popular TV serials — such as “Friends,” “Sex and the City,” “New Girl,” and “The Inbetweeners” — in which friendships are lived and variously configured through sexual relationships.
What could we make about meanings of friendship and sex, and their inter-relationship, in contemporary American culture?
We will read various texts that form historical threads that inform our contemporary concepts and practices of friendship and romance.
Readings will include Winthrop, Plato, Cicero, Biblical sources, St. Augustine, St. Aquinas, Montaigne, Bray, Marcus, Sedgwick, and Foucault.
Finally, we will return to contemporary America, asking what gay marriage, Facebook, and changing conceptions of masculinity/femininity are doing to/for friendship.
Note: Expected to be given in 2015–16.
This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Culture and Belief.
No comments:
Post a Comment