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May 12, 2024
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ENG 488 - Ethics in Literature (3 units) CO12
The relationships among story structure, narrative theory, textual study, ethics and legal practice. Considers issues/ethical questions in the law including contracts, culpability, guilt, discrimination, social justice.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 303 or Junior standing.
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Fall
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. define ethical interests at stake in judicial testimony, literature, and real-world situations or practices.
2. articulate what makes a particular course of action ethically defensible.
3. integrate, synthesize, and apply knowledge of ethical dilemmas and resolutions through focused and interdisciplinary research.
4. align historical developments in jurisprudence with shifting conceptions of ethics.
5. identify the real-world ethical values in non-classroom activities, including trials in federal and district court, observing court practice, analyzing linguistic and narrative features of the trial and defining ethical issues inherent in the effort to provide procedural justice.
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