Literature and Human Rights

Exploration of the origins of the concept of human rights in the form of a variety of primary and secondary sources. While the main task of the course will be reading and discussing these documents, students will also have the opportunity to explore a contemporary human rights issue in the form of a research paper. Topics include (but are not limited to) sexual rights, the rights of children, labor rights, the rights of immigrants, and/or the right to free expression and can be explored in a national or global setting.