Overview
Description
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.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Junior or Senior standing
ENG 303
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Junior or Senior standing OR ENG 303.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Core
CO12
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- define ethical interests at stake in judicial testimony, literature, and real-world situations or practices.
- articulate what makes a particular course of action ethically defensible.
- integrate, synthesize, and apply knowledge of ethical dilemmas and resolutions through focused and interdisciplinary research.
- align historical developments in jurisprudence with shifting conceptions of ethics.
- 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.