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ENG 187: Shakespeare and Social Justice


Units: 4

Explores the ways in which Shakespeare can be used as a tool for addressing issues of social justice, including racism, homophobia, sexism, ableism, incarceration, migration, human rights abuses, and environmental injustices. Students analyze Shakespeare’s histories of both oppression and liberation, and creatively express their own ideas for leveraging Shakespeare’s global recognition in a way that imagines more just futures for all.

Course Details
Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0

Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

GE Requirements
  • Intellectual Experience: Diversity and Identity
  • Intellectual Experience: Ethics
  • Approaches to Knowledge: Literary and Textual Analysis
  • Upper Division: Writing in the Discipline

Requisites and Restrictions
Prerequisite Courses: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
Open only to the following class level(s):
  • Sophomore
  • Junior
  • Senior

Instructor Permission Required: No


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