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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

313846 (v.1) Human Rights and Development 507

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Area: Faculty of Humanities
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 2.0
Seminar: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 313782 (v.1) CHRE507 Human Rights and Development or any previous version
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313959 (v.1) CHRE507 Human Rights and Development or any previous version
Syllabus: This unit explores development by critiquing dominant models of economic development and exploring the relationship of human rights to development issues and development practice. It also focuses on colonialism and anti-colonialist practice; human rights abuses of Indigenous populations in the name of "development"; Indigenous understandings of human rights and challenges to colonialist development; human rights, development and environmental issues; gender and development; and the role of international financial and trade institutions in development.
Field of Education: 090300 Studies in Human Society (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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