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Class number:
3187
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Title: Law literature social justice |
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Department: Human Rights Studies |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: Yes |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 13 |
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Available seats: 2 |
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Start date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 |
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End date: Friday, May 9, 2025 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: R: 5:00PM-8:00PM, TBA |
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Instructor(s): Falk, Glenn |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
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Note: Open only to students in the Trinity Prison Education Project/Hartford Correctional Center |
Course Description:
What is justice? Whose justice is it? Should an unjust law be obeyed? Is the rule of law simply a means to secure the position of the powerful in society, or does the law provide a genuine possibility of equality for all? What lessons should a twenty-first century audience learn from literary depictions of legal and moral conflict in Ancient Greece and during the slavery and Jim Crow eras in the United States? These and other literary works will allow us to consider the role of race, class, gender, sexuality, and dis/ability in our relationship to the law and to each other: Sophocles' Antigone, Herman Melville's Billy Budd, selected short stories of Eudora Welty, and Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. |