Several difficulties here.
- You can’t possibly fit the intricacies of multiple programming paradigms in a course.
- Programming paradigms themselves are usually (always?) pushed way beyond their usefulness.
- “Declarative Programming” is an oxymoron; here is one post on the topic but please search yourself, the topic pops up regularly.
- Reading library code is a fundamental part of learning programming.
- Terribly sloppy to save typing: Programming does not have general laws in the same way that nature does. It is invented by humans and we still don’t understand ourselves well enough.
I understand that this doesn’t answer your question directly.