DWA 225 Understanding Human Rights through Literature & Film II: Global Rights Debates
This interactive seminar offers a broad introduction to international human rights theory and practice through the lens of poetry, non-fiction, documentaries, and feature films, with a primary focus on rights debates within the global arena. The course will include case studies centering on the intersection of racial and environmental justice, gender and sexuality, genocide and crimes against humanity, and transitional justice, which allow for the consideration of questions relating to the universality or relativism of human rights, the duty-bearers of human rights, the politics of memory, and the relationship between justice and reconciliation.