Human Rights and Global Justice
UndergraduateTAS-HSS2072024
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Human Rights and Global Justice
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Describe how human rights are a historical, contemporary and evolving concept.
- Explain how the emergence and development of international human rights theory has contributed to international laws and institutions for the protection and promotion of human rights.
- Evaluate how different cultural perceptions of law and justice continue to impact on our international regime of human rights.
- Module 1: The Evolution of Human Rights
- Human Rights: A Search for Origins
- Law and Liberties: Magna Carta to the American Revolution
- The cause of humanity: French Revolution and citizen rights
- The global struggle for rights c 1800 - 1948
- Internationalisation of Rights - Instituting rights in the post-1945 global order
- Module 2: Human Rights – Alternative Narratives
- Contesting 'universal' rights: The decolonial critique
- Decolonisation and the institutionalisation of human rights - The contribution of the Third World
- Self-determination and the rights of Indigenous people
- Module 3: Rights and Global Justice
- The responsibility to protect
- From Pinochet to the ICC
Human rights are fundamental rights that are inherent to every individual. They are underpinned by concepts of human dignity and the essential equality of all people. The subject takes an interdisciplinary approach to the development, application and cultural relativity of human rights, and how they are placed alongside our notions of global justice.
The subject is delivered in three modules. The first module explores the evolution of the liberal conception of human rights, with a focus on how the understanding of rights has changed over time. The second module introduces students to non-Western conceptions of human rights, with a focus on indigenous conceptions. The third module discusses who guarantees protection of rights, and how violators of rights have come to be punished in the international system. The material covered in this subject is global in both its geographic scope and its cultural awareness. The subject will provide you with the tools to make determinations about the nature of human rights in a globalised world.
- Short Answer Quiz (20%)
- Oral Presentation (30%)
- Major Essay (40%)
- Tutorial Participation (10%)
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Entry requirements
Others
Conditional requisite: 100 credit points
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: 5 week session Jan B - 3 x 50-minute pre-recorded lecture weekly; 3 x 1.5-hour online tutorial weekly Semester 2 - 1 x 50-minute pre-recorded lecture weekly, 1 x 1.5-hour online tutorial weekly
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Psychological Science and Bachelor of Science
UndergraduateTAS-PSC-DEG
Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Science
UndergraduateTAS-BBS-DEG
Bachelor of Science (Sustainability)
UndergraduateTAS-SUS-DEG
Bachelor of Science (Geography and Environment)
UndergraduateTAS-SCG-DEG
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