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Apr 24, 2024
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SOC 4680 - Crimes Against Humanity: Confronting and Responding to Mass Atrocity and Genocide
How social scientists, criminologists, and other intellectuals have sought to make sense of genocide and mass atrocity; the challenge of mass violence for criminology and law; and responses to mass atrocity by local, national and transnational actors.
Requisites: 9 Hours in SOC including 1000
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will analyze organized responses to genocide and mass violence.
- Students will assess the development of human rights, international law, and transnational justice movements.
- Students will consider ethical dimensions of scientific representations of mass atrocity.
- Students will consider strategies for conflict transformation, healing, and conflict prevention.
- Students will consider the context, experience, and behavior of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders in specific cases of mass atrocity.
- Students will study mass atrocity from a comparative-historical perspective.
- Students will understand how criminologists and social scientists attempt to make sense of mass atrocity.
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