PSCI349
Global Discourse on Human Rights
Political Science
College of Liberal Arts
Course Subject Code
PSCI
Course Number
349
Status
Active
Course Attributes
BSS: GenEd-Breadth/Social Science, DVIT: GenEd-Diversity International, EMPO: Major-Political Sci Elective, GLC: GenEd-Global Challenges, MINT: Major-International Relations, MPOL: Major-Political Science, WGST, EMWO: Major-Women's/Gender Elective, ENLW: Minor-Law/Jus/Society Elective, ENPO: Minor-Political Sci Elective, NINT: Minor-International Relations, NLAW: Minor-Law, NPOL: Minor-Political Science
Course Short Title
Global Discourse/Human Rights
Course Long Title
Global Discourse on Human Rights
Course Description
Introduces critical debates on human rights. Beginning with a study of founding of human rights: ideas and institutions, students will have the opportunity to study critiques of the (western) origins of human rights and the alternate approaches to rights emerging from the nonwestern world. Focuses on multiple conceptions of rights emerging from liberalism and its critics, from scholarship on colonization and decolonization, and feminist and critical theories from the global south. After understanding some of the prominent debates on human rights, emphasis will be on the implications of the approaches to conceptions and practices of human rights, for example on gender rights as human rights; dissent and free speech; migration; and social and economic inequality.
Min
4
Repeatable
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Course Restrictions
Class: 1A (E), 1B (E), 2 (E),
Equivalent Course(s)
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