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Credit value: 10 credits
Credit level: C
Academic year of delivery: 2022-23
See module specification for other years:
2020-212021-22
Module will run
Occurrence
Teaching cycle
A
Summer Term 2022-23
Module aims
to consider the historical, political, cultural and generic considerations shaping the representation of human rights and human rights violations in literature
to encourage students to relate philosophical, historiographical and political debates on human rights to the particularities of literary and other texts
to introduce students to a range of critical methods and approaches to literary genres and periods
to enable students to develop skills in close reading, writing and argumentation in relation to a clearly defined thematic focus
to enable students to develop skills in group work and presentation in relation to a clearly defined thematic focus
Module learning outcomes
By the end of the module the student will be expected to demonstrate:
an understanding of the concept of human rights
knowledge of critical vocabulary and concepts appropriate to a consideration of human rights in literature
an appreciation of the relationship between human rights and the literary imagination