ClassInfo - Spring 2023 Global Studies Classes

Spring 2023 | GLOS 5403 Section 001: Human Rights Advocacy (53781)

Instructor(s): Diana Quintero
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person
Enrollment Requirements:: Graduate Student
Meets With:: LAW 6058 Section 001
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023

Wed 02:30PM - 05:15PM

UMTC, West Bank

Blegen Hall 205
Enrollment Status:: Open (9 of 20 seats filled)
Also Offered:: (Tentative) Spring 2025
(Tentative) Spring 2024
Spring 2023
Spring 2022

Course Catalog Description:

Theoretical basis of human rights movement. Organizations, strategies, tactics, programs. Advocacy: fact-finding, documentation, campaigns, trial observations. Forensic science. Human rights education, medical/psychological treatment. Research project or background for case study. prereq: Grad student

Class Notes:

FFI: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?GLOS5403+Spring2023

Class Description:

The constant threat to vulnerable individuals and communities' existence has raised successful social movements in some places, while in others has caused repression and persecution of their members and leaders. Justice has not always been accessible in environments full of cultural barriers and systemic discrimination. This 3-credit seminar will use an interdisciplinary lens to examine the ideas and practices used in international human rights advocacy from a grounded perspective. The issues gravitate around four themes: power, voice, protection, and evaluation. We will apply some of the major tools used in strategic human rights advocacy, which include documentation of violations; mapping the social context in which issues are embedded; framing messages and communications to authorities; consulting with experts; developing project objectives and tactics; and experimenting with other ways to engage with activists, the public, and policymakers to bring about change and social justice. The seminar will ponder the ethical choices faced by human rights advocates, considering our positionality and motivations to advance the rights of individuals and groups.

Students will engage with outside groups/community organizations throughout the class. The instructor will work with groups to choose a topic at the start of the semester. To facilitate group work and link to current policy debates, the recommended topics are:

-Socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental rights of children and youth
-Race and gender-based discrimination and violence
-Other human rights issues - with the instructor's approval

Learning Objectives:

As a result of completing this course and the assigned readings and activities, you will be better prepared to

● Integrate issues of practice in the field with theory and research. Special attention will be paid to ethical professionalism in public service.

● Identify political, socioeconomic, and cultural factors working to counter basic human rights protections.

● Develop skills to design strategies and plans for advancing human rights and social justice through legislative reform campaigns, strategic litigation (advocate for clients), private sector advocacy, and United Nations/Inter-American advocacy.

● Develop professional competencies for meaningful and sustainable partnerships with vital human rights actors and organizations. Communicating directly, with organization, focus, purpose, and clarity is part of these competencies.

Grading:

Pass/Fail (S/N) & (A/F)

Exam Format:

None

Workload:

1 Report on engagement in an HR initiative (2
to 3 students group) 25 points

1 Discussant presentation (individual) 20 points

2 Tactics Presentation (group) 30 points

1 Role-play participation (group) 10
points

Participation in Class activities 15
points

Textbooks:

https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53781/1233

Syllabus:

http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/hamm0229_quint100_GLOS5403_Spring2023.docx

Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:

16 January 2023

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