Courses Handbook 2008

310682 (v.1) Human Rights History Across Cultures and Religions 402


Area: School of Education, Language Studies and Social Work
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** 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 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.
** 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

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