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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.

313847 (v.1) Human Rights History Across Cultures and Religions 502

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Area: Faculty of Humanities
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Seminar: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 313779 (v.1) CHRE502 Human Rights History Across Cultures and Religions or any previous version
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313957 (v.1) CHRE502 Human Rights History Across Cultures and Religions or any previous version
Syllabus: This unit provides an overview of the development of the idea of human rights and related concepts in a range of cultures and religions. It explores the development of human rights in the Enlightenment tradition and debates about the foundations of human rights. Other topics include cultural relativist critiques of human rights; non-western cultural traditions of human rights; the role and practice of dialogue; ideas of human rights in different religious traditions; colonialism and human rights; and Indigenous understandings of human rights and perspectives on rights protection, practice and education.
Field of Education: 090300 Studies in Human Society (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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