Status
C
Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
PSCI258 - HUMAN RIGHTS
Term
2011C
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
001
Section ID
PSCI258001
Meeting times
MWF 1000AM-1100AM
Meeting location
FISHER-BENNETT HALL 141
Instructors
DOHERTY-SIL, EILEEN M.
Description
The focus is human rights in global, political, and developmental contexts, especially since 1945. Human rights are part of a wide range of academic disciplines, engineering, history, law, philosophy, and religion being among the obvious. These disciplinary perspectives will be touched upon; politics will be the central one. Some of the main topics include justifications; cross- cultural perspectives; global and international institutional developments and foreign policy. Selected topics will include war, hunger, life, reproduction, servitude, consent, information and the environment.
Course number only
258
Use local description
No