LIT 3663 - Limit Cases: Intl Lit, Film & Ecn Rights

Institution:

Babson College

Subject:

Description:

4.00 credits LIT3663 Limit Cases: International Literature, Film, and Economic Rights (Interdisciplinary Advanced Liberal Arts) This interdisciplinary course in literature and human rights will take as its main focus literary and cinematic representations of economic rights problems, and the contribution of literary artists to discourses on economic rights in the 20th and 21st centuries. We will begin by examining the challenges of ensuring economic rights in customary international law and policy, and will then study specific problems of land, resource, and wealth distribution. Cases and authors likely to be studied include water and mega-dams in India (Arundhati Roy); oil in Nigeria (Ken Saro-Wiwa); sugar in the Caribbean (Toni Morrison; Alan Cambeira); urban and rural land use (Rigoberta Menchu, Fernando Mereilles, Ann Petry, Mike Davis); the global trade in humans (Kevin Bales, Rohinton Mistry, Stephen Frears). Prerequisite: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

Credits:

4.00

Credit Hours:

Prerequisites:

Corequisites:

Exclusions:

Level:

Instructional Type:

Lecture

Notes:

Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.babson.edu

Phone Number:

(781) 235-1200

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

The Course Profile information is provided and updated by third parties including the respective institutions. While the institutions are able to update their information at any time, the information is not independently validated, and no party associated with this website can accept responsibility for its accuracy.