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Introduction to Human Rights

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
1/27/25 - 5/14/25
MoWeFr 11a.m. – 11:50a.m.
Wheatley W02-0158 3 $1984 (guest students)
Date
1/27/25 - 5/14/25
Time
MoWeFr 11a.m. – 11:50a.m.
Location
Wheatley W02-0158
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$1984 (guest students)

Description

This is a collaboratively taught interdisciplinary course on a variety of issues related to Human Rights as discourse and practice. It covers the emergence and institutionalization of human rights discourse in the 20th century, and examines its transformations and extensions into various social, economic, political and cultural realms globally. Topics include critique of Western and normative human rights, policies of indigenous people and women's rights, and cognitive and practical implementations of human rights.

This course is closed for registration.

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