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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

310681 (v.2) Human Rights Theory and Philosophy 401

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Area: Faculty of Humanities
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Seminar: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Definition of human rights, theories of rights, natural rights, existential rights, individual and group rights, 'negative' and 'positive' rights and the implications of this for human rights issues and responsibilities and the responsibilities of the individual, the community, the state and the global community. Human rights and human needs. Rights and ethics. The ' three generations' of human rights and alternative frameworks. Feminist critiques of conventional human rights.
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

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