Courses
GDAR1025 Love Stories and Romance Movies (3 units)
- Medium of Instruction:
- English
“Love Stories and Romance Movies” critically examines a variety of love discourses in print and visual forms, and helps students understand the emotional, physical, historical, political, and ideological dimensions of love. This course studies different love styles, and love in all of its (feudalistic, romantic, modern, and postmodern) forms, placing special emphasis on gender, ethical, and cross-cultural issues in love relationships. Topics covered may include love-shyness, limerence, friendship, companionate love, passionate love, obsession, unrequited love, ludus, pragma, marriage, betrayal, sexual abuse, divorce and death.