308170 (v.1) Human Rights History Across Cultures and Religions 502

Area:

Faculty of Education, Language Studies and Social Work

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

3.0

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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'. Ideasof 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.

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Field of Education:

90515 Welfare Studies

Funding Cluster:

05 - Behavioural Science, Social 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
2005	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