Jul 02, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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ILML 2502 - The Inferno: Dante and His Times
A study of a controversial and resonant creation of Western literature: the first of Dante Alighieri’s tripart Divine Comedy, The Inferno. Dante’s medieval masterpiece relates his epic journey through the afterlife, spanning the entire cosmos. Dante’s multiple-leveled Hell is located in the center of the earth and peopled with demons, his political enemies and contemporaries. Students “pass through” the afterlife, participating in it, thus fulfilling the poet’s original intent in writing his blockbuster poem. They wrestle with timeless questions about culture, right and wrong behavior, the nature of evil, the possibility for spiritual improvement, and the experience of true happiness. The turbulent world of Dante’s medieval Florence has surprising parallels with our own time, including runaway inflation, personal and political accountability, the breakdown of family values, and self-indulgence.
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Pillar: Humanities: Text and Contexts
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Course Transferability: OTM course: TMAH Arts & Humanities
College Credit Plus: Level 1
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to employ appropriate discipline-specific terms, principles and methods to interpret, analyze and evaluate Dante’s literary work.
- Students will be able to describe creative problems that Dante addressed in writing The Divine Comedy and distinctive literary aspects of the work.
- Students will be able to explain the connection between cultural and historical contexts that shaped Dante’s medieval world and his works.
- Students will be able to use appropriate textual evidence to accurately communicate key concepts pertaining to the study of the Divine Comedy.
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