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2012-2013 University Catalog 
    
2012-2013 University Catalog [Archived Catalogue]

LALL 955  Dante in the Modern World

Division of Liberal Arts

3 credits 45.0 hours
400 level undergraduate course

The course explores Dante’s journey in the Divine Comedy, his search for order, for answers to ultimate questions, and his inspiration of artists in various media, such as Baudelaire, T.S. Eliot, Tchaikovsky, Puccini, Rodin, Rauschenberg. The main subject for the study is ‘Inferno’ with references to the Purgatorio and the Paradiso.

Prerequisites LACR*102 or LACR*103

This course is not repeatable for credit.