ATS4810 Global justice: Civil and human rights after 1945

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   appraise and explain the key intellectual and political debates about the nature of justice, civil rights and human rights on a global scale, as well as the relationship between universal notions of justice and rights and arguments about difference and diversity;

2. 2

   identify and apply two major disciplinary approaches to studying human rights in global context, and combine these approaches in their own analysis of major topics and questions in human rights;

3. 3

   critically read a variety of texts, including contemporary documents, polemical literature and campaign material, the academic scholarship based upon those texts and the theoretical and conceptual debates about justice and rights;

4. 4

   critically assess academic scholarship, including methods, assumptions and uses of evidence, and organise and defend a verbal and written argument based upon those assessments;

5. 5

   devise, plan and successfully complete a detailed case study, including significant documentary research, that evaluates the significance and effectiveness of a particular campaign, organisation or issue.