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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.

310682 (v.2) Human Rights History Across Cultures and Religions 402

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Area: Faculty of Humanities
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Seminar: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: The development of the idea of human rights. The Enlightenment tradition and human rights. Human rights in pre-Enlightenment thought. Non-western traditions of human rights. The debate about cultural relativism, and 'the Asian human rights debate'. Ideas of human rights in different religious traditions. Colonialism and human rights. Indigenous understandings of human rights and Indigenous perspectives on human rights protection, practice and education. Human rights in the context of globalisation. Inter-generational human rights.
Field of Education: 090515 Welfare Studies
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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