A Romantic Affliction
Oct. 14th, 2004 02:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabrinamariMonday was the 'Romantic Affliction' lecture in Social and Ecological Aspects of Health and Disease (SEAHD). I love this class. We start out talking about tuberculosis as a disease that has dogged humanity for thousands of years and end up exploring the ways epidemics have shaped our current notions of beauty, fashion and sexy vampires.
Any class in which I can start out describing the symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis and end up talking about Angel, Buffy and Goths is a good class.
After the lecture, I sent my students out into the world armed with scissors and stories of the Romantic poets, eagerly in search of up to one point of extra credit. I got back a pile of handwritten papers stapled to magazine pages and photographs, articles and images, and I am deeply satisfied.
I love to teach. It’s almost the best thing in the world.
Any class in which I can start out describing the symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis and end up talking about Angel, Buffy and Goths is a good class.
After the lecture, I sent my students out into the world armed with scissors and stories of the Romantic poets, eagerly in search of up to one point of extra credit. I got back a pile of handwritten papers stapled to magazine pages and photographs, articles and images, and I am deeply satisfied.
I love to teach. It’s almost the best thing in the world.
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Date: 2004-10-14 05:14 pm (UTC)