BA V1L2 History with Human Rights,
BA V1L8 History with Human Rights (Including Foundation Year),
BA V1LF History with Human Rights (Including Year Abroad),
BA V1LG History with Human Rights (Including Placement Year),
BA T7M8 Latin American studies with Human Rights (Including Foundation Year),
BA T7M9 Latin American Studies with Human Rights,
BA V5M8 Philosophy with Human Rights (Including Foundation Year),
BA V5M9 Philosophy with Human Rights,
BA V5MX Philosophy with Human Rights (Including Year Abroad),
BA V6M9 Philosophy with Human Rights (Including Placement Year),
BA VLM8 Philosophy with Human Rights (Including Foundation Year and Year Abroad),
BA L219 Politics with Human Rights (Including Placement Year),
BA L2M8 Politics with Human Rights (Including Foundation Year),
BA L2M9 Politics with Human Rights,
BA LFM9 Politics with Human Rights (Including Year Abroad),
BA L3J9 Sociology with Human Rights (Including Placement Year),
BA L3M9 Sociology with Human Rights,
BA LMJ9 Sociology with Human Rights (Including Year Abroad),
LLB MM20 Law with Human Rights,
LLB MM21 Law with Human Rights (Including Year Abroad),
LLB MM22 Law with Human Rights (Including Placement Year),
LLB MM30 Law with Human Rights (Including Foundation Year),
BA P570 Journalism with Human Rights,
BA P571 Journalism with Human Rights (Including Year Abroad),
BA P572 Journalism with Human Rights (Including Placement Year),
BA LL37 Social Anthropology with Human Rights,
BA LL38 Social Anthropology with Human Rights (Including Year Abroad),
BA LL39 Social Anthropology with Human Rights (Including Placement Year),
BA L914 Global Studies with Human Rights,
BA L916 Global Studies with Human Rights (Including Foundation Year),
BA L917 Global Studies with Human Rights (Including Placement Year),
BA L918 Global Studies with Human Rights (Including Year Abroad),
BA V301 Curating, Heritage and Human Rights,
BA V302 Curating, Heritage and Human Rights (including Foundation Year),
BA V303 Curating, Heritage and Human Rights (Including Placement Year),
BA V304 Curating, Heritage and Human Rights (Including Year Abroad)
During the autumn term this module will provide a comprehensive introduction to a selection of the most important human rights bodies and organisations entrusted with the legal obligation to uphold and enforce international human rights standards and protections.
The spring term will provide the multidisciplinary student cohort with interdisciplinary human rights teaching from different approaches to human rights and social justice according to the expertise of teaching staff from other departments.
The module aims to consolidate the human rights knowledge acquired in first year of the joint degree programme. Once the foundational materials (UN structures, regional systems, national provisions) are grounded during the first half of the module, the spring term opens the student cohort to other, diverse approaches to human rights and social justice.
A pedagogical story arc through the lens of theory & practice will serve to prepare 2nd year students for 3rd year where they are educated about contemporary challenges in the protection of human rights globally. In addition, this multidisciplinary pedagogical approach aims to support students to think critically and analytically about human rights.
By the end of this module students will have gained:
1. Knowledge of the key United Nations bodies involved in setting, implementing and enforcing states’ human rights obligations.
2. Knowledge of the structure and role of regional human rights systems.
3. Knowledge of the primary institutions and mechanisms designed to ensure compliance with human rights standards at the domestic level and their relationship to regional and international bodies.
4. Deepened understanding of human rights and social justice issues by reference to their social, political, and historical contexts.
Indicative Syllabus:
Week 2 Introduction: universal, regional and domestic mechanisms for the promotion and protection of human rights
Week 3 The United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies
Week 4 The United Nations Charter System: The Human Rights Council and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Week 5 European System
Week 6 European System
Week 7 Inter-American System
Week 8 Inter-American System
Week 9 African System
Week 10 National Human Rights Institutions
Week 11 National Courts and the Protection of Human Rights
Week 16 Introduction to multidisciplinary Human Rights (spring term)
Weeks 17-19 History & Human Rights
Weeks 20-22 Politics of Human Rights
Weeks 23-25 Sociology & Human Rights