History, Politics and Human Rights
Duration
- 1 Semester/Teaching Period
Contact hours
- 36 hours
2021 teaching periods
Hawthorn
Higher Ed. Semester 1 | ||
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Swinburne Online
Teaching Period 3 | ||
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
Aims and objectives
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Analyse 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 analyse key historiographical debates in human rights literature and examine the limitations of human rights declarations.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Face to Face Contact Lecture Tutorial |
1 2 |
12 12 |
12 24 |
Online Contact | N/A |
|
|
Specified Learning Activities Weekly Readings Lecture / Quiz note revision Report Research/Readings Essay Research/Readings |
2 0.5 4 4 |
12 12 5 5 |
24 6 20 20 |
Unspecified Learning Activities Independent study | 4 | 11 | 44 |
TOTAL |
|
| 150 hours/12.5cp |
SOL
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Face to Face Contact | N/A |
|
|
Online Contact Collaborate sessions |
1 |
4 |
4 |
Specified Learning Activities Interactive DB activities Online eLA-student interactions Readings Viewing videos Online tests | 8 | 12 | 96 |
Unspecified Learning Activities Independent study Assessment tasks Reading up on current affairs relevant to topics | Recommended |
| 50 |
TOTAL |
|
| 150 hours / 12.5cp |
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 |
General skills outcomes
• Analysis Skills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Communication Skills
• Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
• Ability to work independently
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.