Sources and Methods of Justice

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All professors, in spite of the cliché, are in contact with the world," says Peter Hans Kolvenbach, S.J. Students in ENG 332 will analyze the role of English studies in the discipline of the course as it is in contact with the world. Specifically, students will be asked to critically engage with the moral dimensions of reading and writing; students will explore and explain how writing and reading illuminates humans' search for truth, demonstrates or challenges us to grow in solidarity, and/or demonstrates ways in which we can take responsibility for the complex realities of the world. Students' projects in the course will demonstrate this critical engagement with the moral dimensions of reading and/or writing by demonstrating how texts can contribute to positive solutions for social inequality, or particulate solutions to social justice issues. This course demonstrates our department's preferential option for an understanding of English studies that engages questions of society, justice, and the world. P: ENG 200 , Ethics course, Critical Issues course.