Courses Handbook 2008

308188 (v.1) Human Rights and Development 507


Area: School of Education, Language Studies and Social Work
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 2.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Seminar: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Ideas of development - economic development and social development. Critiques of conventional development models. The relationship of human rights to development issues and development practice. Colonialism and anti-colonialist practice. Human rights abuses of indigenous populations in the name of 'development'. Indigenous understandings of human rights and indigenous challenges to colonialist development. Community development and human rights. Human rights and world poverty. Human rights and environmental issues. Human rights and business, especially in the developing world.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
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

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1 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

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