Courses Handbook 2009

308197 (v.1) Human Rights Activism, Advocacy and Change 512


Area: School of Education Language Studies and Social Work
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 2.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Seminar: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Lobbying for human rights. The role of 'human rights defender'. Promoting human rights in hostile environments. Case studies of human rights advocacy and change including the struggles of Indigenous peoples. Dialogue and negotiation. Social action. Civildisobedience. Gandhian non-violence. Conflict and consensus models of change. The human rights movement and links with other social movements. For example, peace, labour, environment and women's movements.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 090515 Welfare Studies
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2009 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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