PSCI 420
Senior Seminar in Human Rights in International Politics and Law
Fall 2017
(also offered Spring 2018)
Division II
Writing Skills
Cross-listed
JLST 403
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Class Details
The idea that all humans have rights simply because they are human-independent of anything they might do or achieve-has transformed local and international politics, probably permanently. This concept’s place in international politics, its strengths and limitations, depend on how people use it. Beginning with the 18th-century’s transatlantic movement to abolish slavery, we will examine international movements and institutions that have affected what human rights mean, to whom, and where. Readings draw on philosophy, history, sociology, and international relations, but as a political science class we emphasize politics. Who benefits from the idea of universal human rights? Who loses? How does this idea about individual value liberate and entrap? Does this idea ultimately reinforce American hegemony, or plant the seeds of a non-American order?
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 18
Expected: 18
Class#: 1906
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 18
Expected: 18
Class#: 1906
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
three lead essays, three critique essays, and one final essay
Prerequisites:
PSCI 202, senior standing, permission of instructor
Enrollment Preferences:
PSCI majors, senior JLST concentrators ; seniors
Distributions:
Division II
Writing Skills
Notes:
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
PSCI 420 Division II JLST 403 Division II
PSCI 420 Division II JLST 403 Division II
Attributes:
JLST Enactment/Applications in Institutions
PSCI International Relations Courses
PSCI International Relations Courses
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