ADVANCED TOPICS IN HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIANISM

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Learning Outcomes: 1. Situate contemporary understandings of and responses to human rights issues within broader historical and political processes. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Critically engage with theoretical arguments and empirical material through reading, writing, and group-discussion. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Apply situated, contextual knowledge about international human rights and humanitarianism concerns to ongoing human rights and humanitarian issues and various kinds of human rights violations. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Demonstrate and exercise a nuanced understanding and approach to human rights and humanitarianism advocacy issues. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Implement independent research skills. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Situate contemporary understandings of and responses to human rights issues within broader historical and political processes. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Critically engage with theoretical arguments and empirical material through reading, writing, and group-discussion. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Apply situated, contextual knowledge about international human rights and humanitarianism concerns to ongoing human rights and humanitarian issues and various kinds of human rights violations. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Demonstrate and exercise a nuanced understanding and approach to human rights and humanitarianism advocacy issues. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Implement independent research skills. Audience: Undergraduate