Human Rights Literature - Einzelansicht

Dear students, all courses will be taught as online courses with asynchronous access until further notice. Once you have signed on in PULS and have been admitted in PULS, your instructor will email you via PULS to let you know when and how to access the online material (moodle, etc.). Testatsleistungen (course requirements) may be subject to change. Students who cannot (yet) access PULS: Please email your instructor directly.

Drafted under the chairwomanship of Eleanor Roosevelt and published on 10 December 1948, the United Nations Organization's Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a reaction to the atrocities of the Second World War. Despite its apparent newness of enshrining rights of the individual, the ideas and values it embodies have been developed through different stages over more than 2,500 years. Since the 1960s human rights has grown into a powerful legal and moral framework for advocacy groups and artists alike. Still, the equality of non-white human lives remains a faint dream.

This course is designed to introduce students to the field of human rights, literary activism based in the human rights framework as well as critiques thereof from postcolonial angles. The mostly asynchronous course work will be formulated as individual research tasks and aims to foster students' ability to

• discuss, apply and criticize theoretical texts in conjunction with research objects
• independently devise and conduct small-scale research
• formulate research theses and write argumentative papers.

2/3 ECTS – asynchronous research and analysis assignments on Moodle (graded/ungraded) [50% marks] – research sketch of about 1,000 words (graded/ungraded) [50% marks]

6 ECTS – asynchronous research and analysis assignments on Moodle (graded) [25% marks] – response/research paper of about 3,000 words (graded) [75% marks]