Fall 2025
Telling Stories About Rights
Dates: September 01, 2025 - December 19, 2025Day/Time: Monday; Wednesday 10:10 AM - 11:30 AM EDT
Level: 200-Level
Certificate: Human Rights
Instructor: Nuruddin Farah, Thomas Bartscherer, Bard College
What can fiction tell us about human rights? And what can we learn about fiction by focusing on themes of justice and injustice, suffering and struggle, oppression and resistance? This course will focus on a wide range of fictions, from a variety of writers with different backgrounds and from different parts of the world, that tell compelling stories about individual rights and communal experiences of justice and injustice. Genres will include novels, plays, short stories, essays, and films.
Credits: 4 US / 8 ECTS