This course explores love and intimacy from an interdisciplinary, humanistic social science, intersectional, data feminist, and queer studies perspective. In this course, we will examine the systems of meaning, politics, and infrastructures of feeling surrounding notions of love and intimacy. We will also explore the structural forces that constitutively shape and mediate love and intimacy today, focusing on how emerging technologies, shifting economic, political, and sociotechnical conditions, heightened border crossings, and reproductive and climate injustice are reconstituting the terms, practices, and meanings associated with love, intimacy, and intimate arrangements in real time.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 25

Prerequisites: None. Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors. First-Years with permission of the instructor.

Distribution Requirements: SBA - Social and Behavioral Analysis

Typical Periods Offered: Fall

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Fall; Not Offered; Spring