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Spring 2023  |  PA 5890 Section 001: Topics in Foreign Policy and International Affairs -- Fact-Finding Investigations on Human Rights (65577)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
1.5 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:
First Half of Term
 
01/17/2023 - 03/13/2023
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 35
Enrollment Status:
Open (11 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Selected topics.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?WALSH912+PA5890+Spring2023
Class Description:

This is a 1.5 credit, half-semester course (meeting from Jan. 17 to March 13).


This course will familiarize you with core principles and techniques for human rights fact-finding, focusing especially on interviews.


You'll learn practical skills, such as: planning and preparing for fact-finding interviews; navigating ethical and security challenges; tailoring interviews for specific populations; conducting remote interviews; minimizing the risk of retraumatization and vicarious trauma; and adapting fact-finding approaches for restricted or challenging locations.


This seminar uses role-play simulations as a learning tool. Most weeks, you will "learn by doing" as we spend one class session discussing topics and techniques, and the other doing role play exercises in pairs of students. After many shorter practice sessions in class, you'll do a full, in-depth mock interview with me based on a hypothetical scenario.

Learning Objectives:

Through this course, you will understand what fact-finding is and how fact-finding interviews are used in the human rights field. You will develop skills that will enable you to:

  • Understand core standards and ethical considerations for human rights interviews

  • Mitigate risks of retraumatization and vicarious trauma

  • Interview survivors of human rights abuses, and understand best practices for interviewing specific populations

  • Navigate remote interviews

  • Assess and handle security risks for interviews

  • Obtain data and information from official sources

Grading:
A-F or S/N
Exam Format:
The assignments are short and practical. They're designed to build your skills in planning and conducting human rights interviews. There is no lengthy written paper assignment, and no final exam.
Class Format:
In-person
Workload:
Commensurate with other graduate-level courses.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65577/1233
Syllabus:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/walsh912_PA5890_Spring2023.pdf
Past Syllabi:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/walsh912_PA5890_Spring2022.pdf (Spring 2022)
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/walsh912_PA5890_Spring2021.pdf (Spring 2021)
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/walsh912_PA5890_Fall2020.pdf (Fall 2020)
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
11 December 2022

Spring 2023  |  PA 5890 Section 002: Topics in Foreign Policy and International Affairs -- Ethics Conversations for Global Professionals (65612)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
1 Credit
Repeat Credit Limit:
15 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option No Audit
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
 
01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023
Mon 11:15AM - 12:05PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 317
Enrollment Status:
Open (17 of 40 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Selected topics.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?dlevison+PA5890+Spring2023
Class Description:

This is a one-credit, full-semester class, held in-person to facilitate small group conversations.

Gaining experience as a global professional is often fraught with small daily challenges. Many of these have ethical dimensions. In a culture new to them, people may make choices without the time to sit down and think, "Does this choice go against my understanding of what is ethical?" And "How can I be a good guest in this place where I am now living?"

This class provides an opportunity to think through some small and large personal dilemmas. It will not provide answers, but it will provide space for conversations about ethical aspects of different choices. To begin to understand the ramifications of an action or choice, one needs to ask thoughtful questions.

What question(s) should you be asking? Is there a larger issue that needs to be acknowledged? What are the underlying assumptions? How can you explain your own perspective? What would convince you to change your perspective?


Note: The professor is not an expert in ethics. Like others in international development, Deborah Levison has confronted ethical issues in the course of doing field research and using the results of field research. Her area of expertise, child work/child labor, is a site of many conversations regarding ethics.

Who Should Take This Class?:
This course was designed with Global Policy (MPP), MDP and MHR masters students in mind. Others are also welcome. It provides a place to have conversations and debates about ethical dilemmas - particularly regarding social and economic situations -
that may be faced by policy-focused professionals in global contexts.
Learning Objectives:
Students will learn to think critically about minor and major dilemmas that come up in the course of living and working outside of their home country, particularly in the Global South. They will learn to pose clarifying questions and identify their own ethical frameworks that can guide their future decisions.
Grading:

Approximate grading basis:

50% posted discussion questions
50% attendance, classroom participation, and respectful behavior during conversations.
Exam Format:
No exams.
Class Format:
-- Each week, students will finish a reading (often only 2-3 pages) or podcast or video by Friday 6 pm.

-- Each week, students will post one proposed discussion question - or one set of closely-related questions - by Friday 6 pm. The instructor will use those to come up with questions for small groups to discuss in class.

-- In class, students will break into small groups as soon as they come into the room, and start discussing the selected question(s), which will be on a hand-out.

-- Partway through, we may switch to a full-class discussion.

-- In the last few minutes, the instructor or someone else will summarize any conclusions we may have reached.

-- After class, students may earn extra credit by posting additional thoughts on that week's topic (by Friday 6 pm).

Workload:
Most weeks will involve a short reading or podcast/video. In a few weeks, there will be an article-length reading or longer podcast/video.

No projects, no group work outside of class, no final exam.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65612/1233
Syllabus:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/dlevison_PA5890_Spring2023.pdf
Past Syllabi:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/dlevison_PA5890_Spring2024.pdf (Spring 2024)
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 January 2023

Spring 2023  |  PA 5890 Section 003: Topics in Foreign Policy and International Affairs -- Migration, Human Rights, and the Southern Border (65714)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
15 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option No Audit
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
 
01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 35
Enrollment Status:
Open (11 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Selected topics.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?eschwart+PA5890+Spring2023
Class Description:
Professor Eric Schwartz, who has recently completed a five year tenure as president of Refugees International in Washington, DC, will return to full-time status at the Humphrey School and teach this course in the spring of 2023. Before serving as Dean of the Humphrey School from 2011 to 2017, Professor Schwartz served in the White House and the State Department in the Clinton and Obama Administrations, as well as the United Nations and with Human Rights Watch.

This three credit seminar will examine the range of policy issues surrounding forced migration from Central America to Mexico and the United States, human rights, and the southern border of the United States.

The Biden administration came into office with the intention to reverse the closure of asylum space that was accelerated in the prior presidential administration. And administration officials and advocates have promoted measures that include new immigration "pathways" for individuals and families from Central America; expanded refugee processing that would benefit individuals from the Northern Triangle region; and assistance programs to address the so-called root causes forced migration from Central America. While some new measures reflecting these objectives have been implemented, the administration has not moved forward as quickly as urged by refugee and asylum advocates. At the same time, critics of the already limited measures that have been taken point to what they contend are record numbers of unauthorized arrivals at the southern border and urge greater law enforcement measures.

In this seminar, we will examine and assess the policies and practices of the current administration and consider the positions of the administration's critics. In particular, and among other issues, we will explore the values that underlie various definitions of policy success or failure.

Who Should Take This Class?:
Students with interests in migration, forced migration, refugee issues, Mexico and Central America, and human rights and development.
Learning Objectives:
Students will obtain deeper understanding of U.S. asylum policy and practices (especially with respect to the border), the factors driving migration from Central America, including their human rights and humanitarian dimensions, U.S. foreign policy issues relating to the Northern Triangle region, and the policy challenges surrounding each (and all) of these sets of issues.
Grading:
Class participation (25%)
Short policy memo based on assigned class readings (middle of term) (15%)
Largely in-class group project toward end of semester (20%)
Final individual project: class presentation (15%) and final paper (25%)

Exam Format:
No exam.
Class Format:
Combination of short lectures by professor, class discussion, guest lectures, class presentation.
Workload:
About 130-150 pages per week. (See also grading section, above.)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65714/1233
Syllabus:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/eschwart_PA5890_Spring2023.pdf
Past Syllabi:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/eschwart_PA5890_Fall2021.pdf (Fall 2021)
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
30 December 2022

Spring 2023  |  PA 5890 Section 004: Topics in Foreign Policy and International Affairs -- Human Rights Storytelling as Advocacy (68398)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
1.5 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
15 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option No Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Partially Online
Class Attributes:
Online Course
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Grad or Masters or Law
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
03/13/2023 - 04/12/2023
Mon, Wed 08:15AM - 09:30AM
UMTC, West Bank
UMN ONLINE-HYB
 
04/17/2023 - 04/26/2023
Mon, Wed 08:15AM - 09:30AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 317
Enrollment Status:
Open (4 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Selected topics.
Class Notes:
Class meets online from 3/13/23 - 4/12/23. Class meets in person from 4/17/23 - 4/26/23. Instructor will be Christophe Loviny. If you have questions about the class, please contact Amelia Shindelar at shin0148@umn.edu. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?shin0148+PA5890+Spring2023; http://classinfo.umn.edu/?cloviny+PA5890+Spring2023
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68398/1233

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