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Spring 2019 | GLOS 3900 Section 001: Topics in Global Studies -- Accounting for Human Rights (68233)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 5 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Meets With:
GLOS 5900 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 35
- Enrollment Status:
Open (7 of 9 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics vary each semester. See Class Schedule.
- Class Description:
- For Spring 2019: Also offered under 5900-level; 5xxx-level topic will have additional work & is intended for Master of Human Rights degree program students. This course will focus on critical issues and key debates about knowledge production by human rights practitioners and scholars. What decisions go into researching and representing problems in human rights? Can human rights be quantified? In what ways are universal indicators of human rights useful, and what dynamics of violence do they obscure or perpetuate? The course will investigate these questions and others related to "accounting" and regimes of accountability in human rights. Masters in Human Rights Students: The students will complete an additional assignment for the course beyond undergraduate expectations. It will be to read a full book in the human rights area of their choosing, write a report about it in relationship to course materials, and present it to the other students.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Global Studies sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
- Learning Objectives:
- There is a plethora of information circulating about human rights around the world on the internet. Students will learn to locate accurate information and critically evaluate it using the theoretical tools provided by the course readings and professor. Class work related to this outcome is the final project: a report about accounting practices in a specific domain of human rights and an experiment in counter accounting.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68233/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2018
Spring 2019 | GLOS 3900 Section 002: Topics in Global Studies -- Human Rights Beyond States (68234)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 5 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Meets With:
GLOS 5900 Section 002
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 240
- Enrollment Status:
Open (14 of 20 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics vary each semester. See Class Schedule.
- Class Notes:
- Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?hakyemez+GLOS5900+Spring2019
- Class Description:
- What would the discourse of human rights look like if we move beyond considering nation-states as either paternal protectorates or the sole violators of individual rights and freedoms? What political, ethical, and legal forces do the humanitarian field occupied by transnational agencies, grassroots organizations, and radical social movements hold in both defining rights and addressing violations? How can conventional human rights institutions hold multinational corporations, paramilitary organizations, or rebel groups accountable for human rights violations?
This course focuses on the place of non-state actors in the contemporary world, afflicted as it is by humanitarian crises precipitated by the wars on terror, environmental disasters, authoritarian regimes, and the late capitalist economy. Students will examine the entanglements of human rights discourse with the idea of natural law espoused by international institutions and citizenship rights safeguarded by nation-states. Drawing on readings from anthropology, social theory, international politics, law, as well as feminist and critical race studies, we will explore alternative trajectories that the discourse of human rights follows as it is employed and challenged by, for example, humanitarian agencies in Africa, liberation movements in the Middle East, or paramilitaries in Latin America. By troubling state-centered analyses of human rights, this course invites students to examine multifaceted power structures, complex ethical dilemmas, and radical politics that are enfolded within the contemporary discourse of human rights.
- Grading:
- 15% Participation
15% Response Papers
30% Midterm
40% Final
- Exam Format:
- Essay
- Class Format:
- Lecture
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68234/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 7 November 2018
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