Fall 2019  |  GLOS 3401W Section 001: International Human Rights Law (17931)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019
Thu 05:30PM - 08:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 220
Enrollment Status:
Open (38 of 40 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Issues, procedures, advocacy strategies regarding promotion/protection of international human rights. Students analyze recent case studies of human rights violations in light of evolving laws, enforcement mechanisms. prereq: [3145, 3144] or instr consent
Class Notes:
FFI -
Class Description:
In 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights called on the world's nations to respect the "inherent dignity and "the equal inalienable rights" of all people. But while the declaration helped globalize human rights, the world continues to experience genocide, torture, slavery, economic destitution, and the wide-scale displacement of people. Is it possible to reduce - or to bring an end - to these gross violations of human rights? The course seeks to imagine new strategies to address current-day human rights challenges around the globe specifically involving wide-scale violence against individuals and groups. In the process of conceptualizing unique strategies, students examine the complex social forces that impede human rights. Students are anticipated to write a strategy paper on a contemporary human rights challenge, participate (among various possible roles) in human rights litigation, and represent a nation-state in a simulation of the United Nations Security Council.

Who Should Take This Class?:
Any student who is interested in discussing human rights, with a focus on questions of wide-scale violence against individuals and groups. This includes the topics of genocide, torture, economic destitution, and the displacement of peoples worldwide. Students are expected to participate in various experiential activities while also completing writing tasks (related to these experiential tasks).

Students interested in the law, policy, ethics, global politics, and the sociology and psychology of violence (and other related areas) may find this course helpful.
Learning Objectives:
Identify (and define) a human rights problem.
Analyze the multiple challenges in a particular human rights context.
Devise strategies to address human rights challenges.

Related Learning Objectives
Explore the complex and varying meanings of human rights.
Examine the differences in how human rights are strategically addressed through global policy, at an international level; through state laws, at the national level; through adjudication, at the judicial level; and through activism, at the individual level .
Write and communicate effectively about human rights questions and issues.

Grading:
30% Participation (includes attendance, blog discussion, individual in-class discussion of readings, and general participation)
20% Human Rights Litigation (or Debate) (Simulation) (*the written component is revised based on feedback)
20% Strategy Memo (class discussion of memo ideas, the sharing of comments, and grading based on honor).
30% Simulation of the United Nations General Security Council

*The grading scheme may change. All written documentation may be revised. Furthermore, the instructor intends to consult the students at the beginning of the course.
Exam Format:
There are NO exams in the course.
Class Format:
The course is discussion-based and includes writing. The course includes lectures, blogs, activities, and in-class discussion.
There are no textbooks in the course. All readings are anticipated to be available on Canvas.
Workload:
20-30 Pages Reading per Week (excluding the last two weeks & the final week wrap-up & other periods with simulation exercises and the memo)
1 Human Rights Litigation Case (or debate) (Simulation)
1 Strategy Memo
1 United Nations General Security Council Simulation
15-50 words of Blog Writing Per Week

*The specifics of the workload may change.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17931/1199
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
21 August 2019

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