Vulnerability Studies: An Introduction offered by University of Hyderabad
- A+ NAAC accredited
- Central University
- Estd. 1974
Vulnerability Studies: An Introduction at University of Hyderabad Overview
Duration | 8 weeks |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Vulnerability Studies: An Introduction at University of Hyderabad Highlights
- Earn a Paid Certification after completion
Vulnerability Studies: An Introduction at University of Hyderabad Course details
- Undergrad and postgrad students.
- This course is an elective for UG and PG students across the Humanities and Social Sciences, including Literary Studies, Cultural Studies and Media Studies. It aims to introduce the students to basic concepts in Vulnerability Studies, an emerging discipline.
- It introduces theories of precarity/vulnerability, resistance, resilience, and others. It then turns to specific forms and domains of vulnerability, from willed vulnerability in extreme sports, to ageing and childhood-related vulnerabilities.
- Each of these will be illustrated through examples from literary and popular texts, including films, graphic novels, visual images.
Vulnerability Studies: An Introduction at University of Hyderabad Curriculum
Week 1: Key Concepts: Vulnerability, Precarity, Resilience, Resistance, Risk, Narrative, Deviance/Stigma, Violence and Suffering
Week 2:Reading Vulnerable Bodies in Literature and Culture: Social identities and vulnerability, vulnerable/extreme spaces, ageing bodies, refugee bodies, labouring bodies, sick bodies
Week 3:Vulnerability Aesthetics: Traumatic Materialism, Melodrama, The Sublime
Week 4:Vulnerability Biopolitics: Pandemic Vulnerabilities (historical and contemporary), Bhopal, Genocides
Week 5:Ecoprecarity and Ecodystopias in Literature and Culture
Week 6:Vulnerability and Ageing in Literature
Week 7:Vulnerability and Childhood in Literature
Week 8:Vulnerability, Resilience and Resistance
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