- Course Catalog Description:
- This seminar will approach human rights issues from a variety of "disciplinary" perspectives, including history, the arts, law, the social sciences, and praxis. Empirical work in the social sciences will receive somewhat greater emphasis. One key focus will be the unique advantages (and disadvantages) of the different perspectives and fruitful ways to combine them to strengthen action that improves human rights situations in countries around the world, including the United States. prereq: Grad student or instr consent
- Class Notes:
- 2 seats reserved for SOC graduate students until 4/28/21. Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?boyle014+SOC8171+Fall2021
- Class Description:
How do different disciplines approach human rights? What do human rights mean at global, national, local, and individual levels? Can an interdisciplinary approach strengthen actions that improve human rights around the world (including in the U.S.), and, if so, how? In this course, we focus on the specifics of human rights at multiple levels, and consider the creation, meaning, spread, and translation/implementation of human rights. Although the course is interdisciplinary, there will be a particular focus on social science approaches to human rights.
- Learning Objectives:
* Identify (and define) human rights and human-rights problems
* Analyze the multiple challenges that arise in fully recognizing particular human rights in different contexts
* Use an interdisciplinary framework to devise strategies to address human rights challenges
- Grading:
Seminar participation (10%)
Reflections on readings (30%)
Student-led class (10%)
First draft of paper (15%)
Peer-review of another student's paper (10%)
Second draft of paper (25%)
- Class Format:
- Most classes will have short lectures, followed by a discussion of the readings. Some course meetings will be student-led.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/22911/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 April 2021