Human Rights

Human Rights is a Social Science tutorial taught by Susan Darlington and Flavio Risech-Ozeguera.

Course Description
What are human rights? What does it mean to have rights, and is that meaning the same in different cultural contexts? Should it be? By studying several cases from diverse regions of the world, we will take critical perspectives on the ideals, the language, and the practice of human rights in local contexts with global implications. Our premise is that the legal and the cultural are always entangled in these encounters. Expect an introduction to legal reasoning and anthropological methods, some theory in both disciplines, and a challenging reading list. The course will employ a cooperative learning structure, in which students will be responsible for developing and presenting critical analyses of the cases (Tibet, Rwanda, Burma/Myanmar, South Africa, the Amazon basin, and others), and culminate in a final research project.

Learning Goals

 * Multi-Cultural
 * Presenting
 * Reading
 * Writing