HUMAN RIGHTS

Course Description

This course aims to generate necessary conceptual, historical, theoretical, and methodological background to assess the different aspects of human rights from a multi-cultural perspective. To serve this main goal, the course will mainly focus on the basic concepts, theories, methods, and measures of human rights; history of ideas and institutions of human rights; international regimes of human rights, issues in human rights respectively. Within this framework, a functioning and internally consistent theoretical, methodological, and practical background are analysed to make students understand and explain the specific cases of human rights regulations and practices in the multicultural world.

HUMAN RIGHTS

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Course outcomes

1. 01 Generating necessary conceptual, historical, theoretical, and methodological background to assess the different aspects of human rights (5).
2. 02 Comparing the specific cases of human rights regulations and practices in the multicultural world (5).
3. 03 Enabling students to discuss human rights issues from different perspectives (4).

Course Syllabus

Reference Books & Course Materials

1. 01 Jack Donnelly, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice, 3rd ed., Cornell University Press, Ithaca:2013
2. 02 Andrew Clapham, Human Rights, Oxford University Press, 2007

Learning Outcomes

1. L01 Generating necessary conceptual, historical, theoretical, and methodological background to assess the different aspects of human rights SOLO 5
2. L02 Enabling students to discuss human rights issues from different perspectives SOLO 5
3. L03 Comparing the specific cases of human rights regulations and practices in the multicultural world SOLO 4
4. L04 Understanding the relationship between human rights and other concept such as democracy, development, humanitarian intervention. SOLO 5

Program Outcomes

1. P01 1. Having the ability to understand and discuss international relations discipline by using an interdisciplinary methodology to merge the knowledge coming from sociology, economics, psychology, political sciences well as diplomatic history.
2. P02 2. Having an adequate knowledge of the history and the epochs of international system and being able to identify historical evolution of the contemporary world politics.
3. P03 3. Recognizing local, regional and international actors functioning within the international system.
4. P04 4. Understanding the legal framework of the current international system
5. P05 5. Ability to identify the relations between the key actors of the international system – the states – from a theoretical as well as multi-dimensional scientific and academic methods.
6. P06 6. Ability to analyse the roles and positions of the non-state actors – international organizations in particular – within the current world system.
7. P07 7. Ability to recognize political, socio-economic and cultural structures embedded in international relations.
8. P08 8. Exploring the roots of conflicts among the actors and produce solutions at local, regional and international levels with an analytical focus.
9. P09 9. Being able to understand the politics and the functioning of political institutions in theory and practice.
10. P10 10. Understanding the historical emergence of various political cultures and gaining ability to assess them comparatively.
11. P11 11. Prepare international relations graduates; having a vast knowledge, academic formation and skills to work in public offices, civil society organizations, international institutions and companies at local and global levels.
12. P12 12. To have moral and ethical understanding in the field of work.

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