HR 200

Human Rights Violations

This course introduces students to the relationship between scholarly research and advocacy in the effort to end human rights violations. Students are introduced to the nature and history of international human rights advocacy and then they explore how of interdisciplinary research and social theory can help identify underlying root causes of human rights violations that can be used to define and assess policies and strategies to address these violations. Prerequisites: HR100 and Registration in Human Rights & Human Diversity or permission. of the program coordinator. Exclusions: Double Counting Exceptions.