CRIT 304 Madmen, Depressives, and Fools

3 credits 45.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course

From Galen through Burton and Freud and on to the DSM-V - our modern day diagnostic manual - conceptions of mental health and mental illness negotiate between socially construed ideas of normalcy and scientific conceptions of what it means to be human. This course explores the way in which cultures through different definitions of madness, depression and other mental illnesses engage different institutions — religious, artistic, scientific, governmental—in a discussion about morals, the good life, wisdom and folly, as well as ways in which to regiment life and curb our worse impulses and instincts.

Prerequisites COMP*102, COMP*102D, COMP*102E, COMP*112, or COMP*112H

This course is not repeatable for credit.