History, Politics and Human Rights
Duration
- One Semester/Teaching Period
Contact hours
- 36 hours
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
2023 teaching periods
Swinburne Online Teaching Period 3 |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Aims and objectives
This unit introduces students to the international framework for human rights. Beginning with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the unit examines responses to genocide, inequality and
campaigns for civil rights and self-determination. Through an historical analysis of case studies the unit reflects on
the limitations in human rights law and the “human condition” more generally.
Unit Learning Outcomes (ULO)
On successful completion of this unit students will be able to:
1. Analyze and explain the framework for the development of human rights including the various covenants, conventions and declarations formulated through the United Nations;
2. Examine key struggles for human rights in the twentieth century;
3. Locate, interrogate, and integrate primary and secondary source documents in the development of an argument;
4. Critically analyze key historiographical debates in human rights literature and examine the limitations of human rights declarations.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
On-Campus Lecture | 1 | 2 | 2 |
On-Campus Tutorial | 2 | 12 | 24 |
Online Various | 5.5 - 6 | 12 | 70 |
Unspecified Activities Individual Study | 4 | 11 | 44 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Swinburne Online
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Live Online Class | 1 | 4 | 4 |
Online Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 12 - 12.5 | 12 | 146 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Assessment
Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
Essay | Individual | 40% | 1, 2, 3, 4 |
Report | Individual | 40% | 1, 2, 3, 4 |
Quiz | Individual | 20% | 1, 2, 4 |
Content
- Rights versus Justice
- The Trials at Nuremburg and Tokyo
- International Law versus the Sovereign State: The Declaration
- Displaced Persons and Rights of Refugees
- ‘The dove flies east’: Human Rights as ideology
- Human Rights as Self Determination
- The rights of man and woman
- Humanitarian Intervention to R2P
- Prisons and Punishment: a case study in human rights
- The Just War
- Transitional and Restorative Justice
- Rights versus Justice Revisited
Study resources
- Reading materials.
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required texts will be made available in the Unit Outline.