LTA 2079-02 - THEORIES OF LOVE

Academic Period:

Fall 2025

Section:

LTA 2079-02 - THEORIES OF LOVE

Title:

THEORIES OF LOVE

Meeting Patterns:

Tue/Thu | 13:15 - 14:45

Locations:

Tomasso Hall 103 Can be several values or empty

Start Date:

Tuesday, August 26, 2025 Date format can be changed

End Date:

Friday, December 12, 2025 Date format can be changed

Instructor Name:

Stephen Spiess

Instructor Email:

sspiess@babson.edu

Academic Unit:

A&H - Arts and Humanities

Academic Level:

Undergraduate

Maximum Credits:

4

Delivery Mode:

In-Person

Allowed Grading Bases:

Graded

Section Status:

Waitlist

Enrollment Count:

30

Section Capacity:

30

Description:

LTA2079 Theories of Love 4 Intermediate Liberal Arts Credits What is love? Where does it come from, what does it ask of us, and how does it alter our minds, bodies, values, and relations? Are sex, friendship, and marriage necessary for love, or do they inhibit love’s fullest expression? In this course, we will examine how influential writers have conceived and contested love’s meanings across a range of cultural contexts. Focusing primarily on erotic love (erôs), we will consider how such meanings relate to notions of art, beauty, conjugality, legality, pleasure, sexuality, spirituality, and transgression, both in their original era and our own. Particular attention will be paid to differences of race, class, age, gender, and authority as incitements to, and/or impediments of, relations of love and eroticism. Prerequisites: (FCI1000 or AHS1000) and (WRT1001or RHT1000)

HTML Description:

LTA2079 Theories of Love
4 Intermediate Liberal Arts Credits

What is love? Where does it come from, what does it ask of us, and how does it alter our minds, bodies, values, and relations? Are sex, friendship, and marriage necessary for love, or do they inhibit love’s fullest expression? In this course, we will examine how influential writers have conceived and contested love’s meanings across a range of cultural contexts. Focusing primarily on erotic love (erôs), we will consider how such meanings relate to notions of art, beauty, conjugality, legality, pleasure, sexuality, spirituality, and transgression, both in their original era and our own. Particular attention will be paid to differences of race, class, age, gender, and authority as incitements to, and/or impediments of, relations of love and eroticism.

Prerequisites: (FCI1000 or AHS1000) and (WRT1001or RHT1000)

Format:

In-Person Can be several values or empty

Session:

Full Session Can be several values or empty

Elective:

Can be several values or empty

Program:

Intermediate Liberal Arts (UGrad), , Can be several values or empty