This module is a resource for lecturers
Core reading
This section provides a list of (mostly) open access materials that the lecturer could ask the students to read before taking a class based on this Module.
- Foeman, Anita (2017). DNA tests, and sometimes surprising results. The New York Times, 20 April. » This article explains that DNA reveals more commonalities among people than differences.
- British Museum (2017). The Cyrus Cylinder. » This short text gives background on the Cyrus Cylinder, the artefact which describes how Cyrus treated the Babylonians after his conquest of them, revealing a more tolerant approach than was normal in his time.
- Mandela, Nelson (1994). Long Walk to Freedom. New York: Little, Brown & Company. See especially pp. 50-55. » This text is the biography of the South African political leader, Nelson Mandela.
- Yousafzai, Malala (2013). I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood up For Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. New York: Little Brown and Company. See especially pp. 183-190. » This text is the biography of Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani woman who fought for her right to be educated and was attacked for those beliefs.
- Gandhi, Mohandas (1957). Gandhi, An Autobiography. My Experiments with the Truth. Boston: Beacon Press. » This text is the autobiography of the Indian spiritual and political leader, Mohandas Gandhi. Lecturers can use the film version called Gandhi, and screen in class a short part (min 6 - 20).
