Fall 2024 First-Year Seminar BC1778 section 001

Adultery: Realism and Desire

ADULTERY: REALISM AND DES

Call Number 00618
Day & Time
Location
MW 11:40am-12:55pm
404 Barnard Hall
Points 3
Grading Mode Pass/Fail
Approvals Required None
Instructor Andrew L Lynn
Type SEMINAR
Course Description

"Rising from the most basic human needs, marriage is essential to our most profound hopes and aspirations." So writes the United States Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), finding in marriage the "keystone of our social order" -- the means by which individual desire is stably fixed within the family unit and, thereby, linked to civility and law. This course studies a rich counter-tradition of film and literature interested in adultery. These works suggest ways in which human desire and identity exceed social bounds; they also examine ways in which private desire is not only limited but formed by social forces.

 

Web Site Vergil
Department First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
Enrollment 16 students (16 max) as of 9:06AM Saturday, December 14, 2024
Subject First-Year Seminar
Number BC1778
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Open To Barnard College
Note Barnard 1st Year Students Only
Section key 20243FYSB1778X001