Summer 2025
The Divided Self
Dates: June 03, 2025 - July 11, 2025Day/Time: Tuesday; Friday 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM EDT
Level: 300-Level
Certificate: Human Rights
Instructor: Zahid Rafiq, Bard College
In this course we look through works of literature at people who are at war within themselves, at lives that become places of contestations. We will encounter and study characters who act, or are supposed to act, or are dealing with the consequences of their actions, in ways that have left them divided, people whose desires cut through them, or people simply caught in situations where they split from within.
Credits: 3 US / 6 ECTS