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Apr 25, 2024
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POLS 4565 - International Human Rights
Studies human rights as a vehicle for moral and legal change in international politics. Considers various ways of thinking about what human rights are and how they work at the international level. With a focus on the United Nations system, the course assesses problems and debates concerning the implementation and enforcement of human rights. Addresses difficult questions such as: How well do treaties work in promoting human rights? How can human rights be enforced in the absence of higher authority? And what role do non-state actors play? Considers case studies in a variety of issue-areas, such as: the use of torture, war crimes, indigenous rights, women’s rights, and the right to development.
Requisites: Jr or Sr
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: - Analyze the historical and contemporary significance of the relationship between international human rights and norms protecting state sovereignty.
- Assess the relationship between human rights and the political power and interests of various actors in international politics.
- Conduct and present independent research on the role of human rights law, and the contributions of human rights advocates, in a specific case.
- Evaluate the competing theoretical perspectives on how human rights law works and how effective it is.
- Understand and discuss the historical origins of, and current problems in, international human rights.
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