SPA 341 LAT AM AND HUMAN RIGHTS

An exploration of literary and other cultural responses to atrocities committed in Latin America and an examination of the application of human rights principles to such phenomena as state violence, coerced labor, and poverty. The paradoxical relationship between human atrocities and their aesthetic representations is analyzed in the study of poetry, short stories, novels, political activists' writings and film.

Credits

4

Notes

This course cannot be taken at both the 300 and 400 level.

Prerequisite

SPA 251

Enrollment Limit

Enrollment limited to 18 students.

Attributes

ASPA, W, WLC