HIST 1062 - HUMAN RIGHTS IN WORLD HISTORY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Human rights in world history, will provide a historical overview of the human rights movement, focusing on the 18th-20th centuries. The course will lay out the parameters of the struggle to define and implement human rights in the Western and non-Western world, and engage with the different resulting viewpoints. The course will explore controversial aspects of the implementation of human rights internationally, including calls for the respect of cultural differences. Finally, the course will examine case studies of the racial/ethnic/caste dimension of the human rights struggle, looking at the US, Brazil, Israel, and India as countries with quite different cultural traditions, political makeups, and demographic compositions. The course will enroll 40 students, and will meet once per week in the evening.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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