PA 5890 is also offered in Spring 2025
PA 5890 is also offered in Spring 2024
PA 5890 is also offered in Fall 2023
PA 5890 is also offered in Spring 2023
PA 5890 is also offered in Fall 2022
PA 5890 is also offered in Spring 2022
PA 5890 is also offered in Fall 2021
Spring 2024 | PA 5890 Section 001: Topics in Foreign Policy and International Affairs -- Human Rights, Business, and Governance (65768)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 15 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Online Course
Topics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Grad or Masters or Law
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 35
- Enrollment Status:
Open (10 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Selected topics.
- Class Notes:
- Instructor will be Professor Tricia Olsen. Title: Human Rights, Business, and Governance. Businesses are, and always have been, political actors. Perhaps more so today, we see businesses take a stand or remaining silent on key issues, including race-based violence in the United States, how to engage in environmental and social protections around mining sites in Peru, or whether to remove investments from Russia at the onset of the war in Ukraine. In 2011, the United Nation's Human Rights Council unanimously passed the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. This framework outlines that states have the duty to protect human rights, businesses have the responsibility to respect human rights, and all actors - including civil society - should work toward ensuring victims have access to remedy when, and if, a human rights violation occurs. This class focuses on how the "business and human rights" movement emerged, what it has achieved, and the distance it still must go. Together, we will explore the ways in which policy shapes how markets and states are intertwined. We will investigate how governance of private actors occurs, or how local, domestic, and global efforts are combined to shape the prospects of firms to mitigate or exacerbate violence and how policy helps firms promote or degrade democratic practices. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?olsen+PA5890+Spring2024
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65768/1243
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2024 Public Affairs Classes Taught by Tricia Olsen