Through Literature (3 credits: lecture; online) This course will use literature to engage with and examine human rights as a discourse and a practice. Students will read a variety of literary texts that disrupt the personal understanding of human rights through different genres and media including novels, graphic novels, and poems. This course will use the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a framework to explore five areas of human rights: Economic, social, cultural, civil, and political. Students will critically evaluate distinct, oftentimes problematic articulations of human rights in literature and examine how literature contributes to the human rights discourse. Through open-minded and culturally responsive learning, students will examine their own interests and personal connections to what they are reading and how it impacts them as a person and their place in the world.
- Subject
- LIT
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2024-2025
- Source
- www.bsmcon.edu