Love Yourz

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

What does it mean to love—deliberately, politically, rhythmically—under conditions of precarity, displacement, and exhaustion? How does love shape legislation, organize communities, and drive political movements? What does love do for the body? How does love structure who we eat with, grieve with, fight for, and tend to? This course positions love not as a private sentiment, but as both a research methodology and strategic form of political action. Drawing from Black studies, performance theory, feminist thought, and critical data studies, students will examine love across multiple analytic scales: from saved voicemails and lullabies to photographs tucked into wallets and letters never sent. Moving between the quantitative and the qualitative, the archive and the body, students will interrogate those critical gaps between ‘countable’ institutional metrics and the depths of our affective lives. In doing so, we might be able to build a world accountable to both.