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In the Mood for Love: Cultural Discourses on Love
Interdisciplinary Studies Program
Barcelona, Spain
Dates: early Jan 2026 - late Apr 2026
In the Mood for Love: Cultural Discourses on Love
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Pompeu Fabra University
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Humanities
Instruction in: English
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
DESCRIPTION
In order to examine how love is both a source and an effect of culture, the topic will be studied from a theoretical perspective, but also within specific works of art, literary texts, music, and films. The concept of love will be situated in different cultural contexts, historical periods and artistic movements. Our goal will be to understand how the history of aesthetics and the history of emotions have been conditioned by gender, sexuality, religion, and racial constraints. For this reason, the course contents follow a thematic structure rather than a chronological one, and are divided into thirteen types of discourses on love, which will be approached from a transdisciplinary and transhistorical perspective in order to see what has changed and what remains the same from one epoch to another, as well as what is different and what is similar from one cultural or artistic context to another.