FGSS 4020

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FGSS 4020
Reading the Body in Medicine and Fiction

Course information provided by the 2017-2018 Catalog.

This course examines how modern Spanish writers and doctors represented the human body as they grappled with disease and disability.  Reading fiction alongside medical and anthropological texts we will examine notions of the normal/abnormal, beautiful/ugly/ and healthy/infected as they change over time.  We also look at the ways in which these concepts are inflected by other identity categories such as gender, race, sexuality, and class.


Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: SPAN 2180 or CASE Q++ or permission of instructor.

Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

Distribution Category (LA-AS)

When Offered Spring.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SPAN 4020

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17931 FGSS 4020   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person