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Spring 2024  |  PA 5890 Section 001: Topics in Foreign Policy and International Affairs -- Human Rights, Business, and Governance (65768)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
15 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Online Course
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Grad or Masters or Law
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024
Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 35
Enrollment Status:
Open (10 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Selected topics.
Class Notes:
Instructor will be Professor Tricia Olsen. Title: Human Rights, Business, and Governance. Businesses are, and always have been, political actors. Perhaps more so today, we see businesses take a stand or remaining silent on key issues, including race-based violence in the United States, how to engage in environmental and social protections around mining sites in Peru, or whether to remove investments from Russia at the onset of the war in Ukraine. In 2011, the United Nation's Human Rights Council unanimously passed the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. This framework outlines that states have the duty to protect human rights, businesses have the responsibility to respect human rights, and all actors - including civil society - should work toward ensuring victims have access to remedy when, and if, a human rights violation occurs. This class focuses on how the "business and human rights" movement emerged, what it has achieved, and the distance it still must go. Together, we will explore the ways in which policy shapes how markets and states are intertwined. We will investigate how governance of private actors occurs, or how local, domestic, and global efforts are combined to shape the prospects of firms to mitigate or exacerbate violence and how policy helps firms promote or degrade democratic practices. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?olsen+PA5890+Spring2024
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65768/1243

Spring 2024  |  PA 5890 Section 002: Topics in Foreign Policy and International Affairs -- Ethics Conversations for Global Professionals (65479)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
1 Credit
Repeat Credit Limit:
15 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Online Course
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Grad or Masters or Law
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024
Mon 11:15AM - 12:05PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 184
Enrollment Status:
Open (12 of 36 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Selected topics.
Class Notes:
Title: Ethics Conversations for Global Professionals. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?dlevison+PA5890+Spring2024
Class Description:

This is a one-credit, full-semester class, held in-person to facilitate small group conversations.

Gaining experience as a global professional is often fraught with small daily challenges. Many of these have ethical dimensions. In a culture new to them, people may make choices without the time to sit down and think, "Does this choice go against my understanding of what is ethical?" And "How can I be a good guest in this place where I am now living?"

This class provides an opportunity to think through some small and large personal dilemmas. It will not provide answers, but it will provide space for conversations about ethical aspects of different choices. To begin to understand the ramifications of an action or choice, one needs to ask thoughtful questions.

What question(s) should you be asking? Is there a larger issue that needs to be acknowledged? What are the underlying assumptions? How can you explain your own perspective? What would convince you to change your perspective?


Note: The professor is not an expert in ethics. Like others in international development, Deborah Levison has confronted ethical issues in the course of doing field research and using the results of field research. Her area of expertise, child work/child labor, is a site of many conversations regarding ethics.

Who Should Take This Class?:
This course was designed with Global Policy (MPP), MDP and MHR masters students in mind. Others are also welcome. It provides a place to have conversations and debates about ethical dilemmas - particularly regarding social and economic situations -
that may be faced by policy-focused professionals in global contexts.
Learning Objectives:
Students will learn to think critically about minor and major dilemmas that come up in the course of living and working outside of their home country, particularly in the Global South. They will learn to pose clarifying questions and identify their own ethical frameworks that can guide their future decisions.
Grading:

Approximate grading basis:

50% posted discussion questions
50% attendance, classroom participation, and respectful behavior during conversations.
Exam Format:
No exams.
Class Format:
-- Each week, students will finish a reading (often only 2-3 pages) or podcast or video by Friday 6 pm.

-- Each week, students will post one proposed discussion question - or one set of closely-related questions - by Friday 6 pm. The instructor will use those to come up with questions for small groups to discuss in class.

-- In class, students will break into small groups as soon as they come into the room, and start discussing the selected question(s), which will be on a hand-out.

-- Partway through, we may switch to a full-class discussion.

-- In the last few minutes, the instructor or someone else will summarize any conclusions we may have reached.

-- After class, students may earn extra credit by posting additional thoughts on that week's topic (by Friday 6 pm).

Workload:
Most weeks will involve a short reading or podcast/video. In a few weeks, there will be an article-length reading or longer podcast/video.

No projects, no group work outside of class, no final exam.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65479/1243
Syllabus:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/dlevison_PA5890_Spring2024.pdf
Past Syllabi:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/dlevison_PA5890_Spring2023.pdf (Spring 2023)
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 January 2023

Spring 2024  |  PA 5890 Section 003: Topics in Foreign Policy and International Affairs -- Global Indigenous Politics and Policy (67032)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
15 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Online Course
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Grad or Masters or Law
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024
Mon 06:00PM - 08:45PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 15
Enrollment Status:
Open (11 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Selected topics.
Class Notes:
Title: Global Indigenous Politics and Policy. Professor Sheryl Lightfoot, new faculty member in the Global Policy area, will teach this class. This graduate seminar considers global, regional, and domestic issues for implementing Indigenous human rights, especially the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, focusing on public policy along with historical, political, and legal connections. We will examine the challenges and opportunities for Indigenous people at multiple levels of governance in various public policy frameworks, decisions and case studies, implementing Indigenous rights in international organizations, the intersections between law, politics, the environment, education and health, and the roles of non-governmental organizations as well as Indigenous communities and movements. Course objectives include: *Familiarize students with Indigenous human rights, the politics of Indigenous peoples' advocacy for their human rights as well as state, non-governmental organization (NGO), and international organizations' (IO's) advocacy related to Indigenous human rights, and the policies of states and international organizations in pursuing (or resisting) Indigenous human rights. *Introduce the global history and development of governmental policies related to Indigenous peoples and their rights. *Develop an understanding of the impacts of Indigenous human rights, policy advocacy, governance structures and their implementation in domestic, regional and global contexts. *Understand the importance of implementation for Indigenous peoples as well as the challenges surrounding implementation of policies to advance Indigenous peoples' human rights. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?slightft+PA5890+Spring2024
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67032/1243

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