GLOS 5403 is also offered in Spring 2025
GLOS 5403 is also offered in Spring 2024
GLOS 5403 is also offered in Spring 2023
GLOS 5403 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2024 | GLOS 5403 Section 001: Human Rights Advocacy (53362)
- Instructor(s)
- 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
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 30
- Enrollment Status:
Open (16 of 17 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- 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
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53362/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 9 November 2022
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