ClassInfo - Fall 2021 History Classes

Fall 2021 | HIST 3728 Section 001: The History of Human Rights (34711)

Instructor(s): Sheer Ganor
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Meets With:: HIST 5728 Section 001
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021

Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM

UMTC, West Bank

Blegen Hall 140
Enrollment Status:: Open (21 of 33 seats filled)
Also Offered:: Fall 2021

Course Catalog Description:: What are human rights? How and when did they originate? How were such rights promoted, protected, and contested at different historical junctures, and by whom? In this course, we will examine the historical processes through which human rights have been conceptualized, codified, violated, and vindicated. Throughout the semester, we will travel across the globe and trace events that span from the eighteenth century to the present day. Our search will take us through the multiple histories that have shaped what we nowadays recognize as the human rights framework ? its institutions, products, and norms. Integrating perspectives and readings from the humanities, social sciences and legal studies, this course explores how meanings of human rights have fluctuated in response to historical developments, and how human rights have come to gain their prominent role in contemporary politics, law, and culture.
Class Description:: What are Human Rights? Who gets to claim them? How have they been enforced, contested and implemented from their inception to the present moment? This course addresses these and related questions through a historical perspective, tracing the origins of Human Rights as a concept, a legal category and a global political concern.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34711/1219
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 17 April 2020

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