Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Lecture
Workshop
Module Offerings
6115SOC-SEP-MTP
Aims
1. To explore the development of approaches to the study of emotions within the humanities and social sciences.
2. To apply a range of contemporary theoretical approaches to case studies in aversive emotions such as fear, hate, disgust, and terror.
3. To examine the aesthetic politics at stake in the public life of private emotions.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Discuss critically how emotions have been approached within a range of theoretical traditions.
2.
Examine critically the politics and aesthetics at stake in a case study of aversive emotion.
3.
Situate the shifting politics of emotions and evolving approaches to affect and emotion in the humanities and social sciences within broader cultural, political, and epistemic contexts.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Approaches to emotions within the humanities and social sciences.
Case studies in the public life of aversive emotion, including, though not restricted to, fear, hate and racism; anger and fear in politics; risk, anxiety, fear and pandemic; fear, risk and extreme sport; horror and the paradox of fear; contemporary geopolitics of fear and the sublime.
Module Overview:
This module will begin by examining major philosophical and theoretical approaches to the study of emotions. Thereafter the module will examine a series of case studies in aversive emotions such as fear, hate, anger, and disgust. By the end of the module, students will have a strong understanding of the ways in which we might approach the analysis of emotions, and will have covered a range of contemporary cases allowing them to unpick the politics and aesthetics of aversive emotion.
This module will begin by examining major philosophical and theoretical approaches to the study of emotions. Thereafter the module will examine a series of case studies in aversive emotions such as fear, hate, anger, and disgust. By the end of the module, students will have a strong understanding of the ways in which we might approach the analysis of emotions, and will have covered a range of contemporary cases allowing them to unpick the politics and aesthetics of aversive emotion.
Additional Information:This module will begin by examining major philosophical and theoretical approaches to the study of emotions. Thereafter the module will examine a series of case studies in aversive emotions such as fear, hate, anger, and disgust. By the end of the module, students will have a strong understanding of the ways in which we might approach the analysis of emotions, and will have covered a range of contemporary cases allowing them to unpick the politics and aesthetics of aversive emotion.