Spring 2023  |  SOC 4104 Section 001: Crime and Human Rights (65637)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Meets With:
SOC 4104H Section 001
SOC 5104 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023
Wed 05:30PM - 08:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hanson Hall 1-106
Enrollment Status:
Open (29 of 42 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
This course addresses serious violations of humanitarian and human rights law, efforts to criminalize those violations (laws and institutions), and consequences of these efforts. Special attention will be paid to the impact interventions have on representations and memories of atrocities on responses and the future of cycles of violence. Case studies on Holocaust, Balkan wars, Darfur, My Lai massacre, etc. Criminal justice, truth commissions, vetting, compensation programs. prereq: SOC 1001, at least one 3xxx SOC course recommended, Sociology majors/minors must register A-F
Class Notes:
Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?savel001+SOC4104+Spring2023
Class Description:
This course addresses serious violations of humanitarian and human rights law, efforts to criminalize those violations (laws and institutions), and consequences of these efforts. Examples are crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. Special attention will be paid to the impact interventions have on memories of atrocities as such memories are likely to affect the future of cycles of violence. Section I provides an overview of the basic themes of this class and their interconnection: atrocities, legal and other institutional responses, and the ways responses mediate memory. Section II addresses a series of cases in which responses to past atrocities included criminal prosecution and trials: the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, the Balkan wars, and the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War. A special focus will be on the violence in the Darfur region of Sudan. Section III will examine cases in which a major response to atrocities was truth commissions, at times combined with trials and compensation programs. Special cases include South Africa, Argentina, and post-Communist Eastern Europe. Section IV addresses the consequences of interventions and memories for ending cycles of violence. Honors and graduate students are expected to demonstrate greater depth of discussion, depth and to a degree length of writing assignments, presentations, and leadership of the students.
Who Should Take This Class?:
Students with an interest in issues of crime and human rights. In the past, students in sociology (including LCD), global studies, political science, history, and a variety of other fields have been enrolled.
Learning Objectives:
Learn basic facts about grave violations of human rights; engage with efforts at explaining such events; learn about new types of responses and their consequences.
Grading:
80% Two midterm and one final exams.
20% Attendance, participation and individual contribution to group project
A class paper linking the student's thesis project to concepts and theories addresses in this class.
Exam Format:
Multiple choice and short answer or essay
Class Format:
60% Lecture
15% Film/Video
10% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
5% Student Presentations
Workload:
About 80 pages reading per week plus exams and writing assignments plus one class paper (reading and writing)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65637/1233
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
18 March 2021

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