Great Issues in Humanities

Dr. Emmanuel Yewah

Office:  105 Vulgamore

Phone: 0314

Office Hours:  Wed., Fri. 10-11

HSP 131  -  CRN 2313

11:10 – 12:00 noon

Monday, Wednesday, Friday

Observatory

  Law and Literature

This course uses a wide range of sources including novels, short stories and/or films and theoretical materials first to establish the link between laws and literature and then explore such issues as text, legal ideology, storytelling techniques by writers and litigants in a courtroom, marginalization, language, the questions of evidence, etc.  It also studies writers’ contributions to the indigenous and received traditions in the law through legal narratives that illuminate some aspects of the law or, indeed, raise fundamental questions about those traditions.

Evaluation of the course will be based on attendance, attentive reading of assigned material prior to class and active participation in class discussions, three critical essays (or the student’s own creative work), and a reasonable length term paper.