Anthropology of Emotion

CAS AN 571

  • Creativity/Innovation
  • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
  • Social Inquiry II

Advanced seminar on the study of emotion as culturally and historically specific experience, cognition and symbolic system. Focus on specific emotions including shame, anger, melancholy, hope, hate and love. Special attention to affect and the politics of emotion. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II, Creativity/Innovation.

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