Liberal Arts

Global Humanities 3: Post-Truth Worlds

Module code: Q9120
Level 5
15 credits in autumn semester
Teaching method: Workshop
Assessment modes: Coursework

This module explores the status of knowledge and truth, facts and expertise in a contemporary world where the status of ‘truth’ is often contested and embattled.

You will explore the relationship between values, beliefs and facts through a series of analytical engagements with topics and case studies, treated both historically and comparatively and drawn from a variety of disciplinary contexts.

You will focus on some or all of the following:

• language use by contemporary politicians
• witch hunts in early modern Europe and modern America
• pandemic management in West Africa;
• reading in the digital age
• social media and conspiracy theories.

Module learning outcomes

• Critically assess and analyse process of knowledge-production and circulation, and evaluate the validity of particular forms of knowledge.
• Effectively communicate analysis and argument in relation to knowledge-production and circulation, and present them in written form.
• Independently research and analyse a particular example of knowledge-production and circulation.
• Apply culture-specific knowledge to think critically, comparatively and creatively about global, national and local issues.