Human rights from an interdisciplinary perspective. Topics may include the foundations and nature of rights, roots of inequality and oppression,...
Historical overview of the theoretical and philosophical approaches underlying the human rights movement and relevant to the normative ideals and...
The study of power from a critical, transnational perspective; the impact on human rights of different forms and modalities of power, including those...
Human rights issues in various cultural contexts concerning sex and/or gender, with attention to sexual minorities such as gay, lesbian, and...
Canada is home-in-exile to many who have faced severe and often life-threatening political repression such as imprisonment, torture, surveillance,...
The processes used in preparing individuals to commit torture, murder and other forms of violence on behalf of a state or associated organizations,...
The underlying conditions and developments of historical and contemporary social and political movements; specific social movements such as civil...
This advanced seminar will cover current and topical issues and/or debates in human rights, and will enable students to engage in focused discussions...
This course problematizes human rights paradigms and critically examines the limitations of the political within liberal democracies. Bringing...
The forms and effects of systemic race-based human rights abuses. Topics may include immigration and refugee policies and practices, anti-apartheid...
The impact of cultural and religious traditions on women's human rights. Topics may include the impact of gender roles on the status of women,...
This course profiles the global human rights issues of children and relates them to the international treaties and mechanisms to address them. Topics...
Case studies in persecution and/or genocide in different cultural contexts. The social, political, and legal conditions that have enabled the...
The development of social, economic and cultural rights, including rights to housing, healthcare, education and employment. Topics may include the...
Corporate involvement in human rights violations, with attention to how corporations encourage, participate in, and benefit from political repression...
Overview of critical debates on environmental issues from a global social justice perspective. Topics may include corporate mining, food sovereignty,...
The relationship between citizenship and human rights; how large groups of people, including non-citizens and refugees, are excluded from entitlements...
Detailed study of a selected topic relating to normative questions and/or debates concern specific rights claims and/or to the international human...
The role of the state in the social, moral and legal regulation of sex, and the human rights claims that state policies give rise to. Topics may...
Critical analyses of human rights through an examination of transgender subjectivities. The systemic erasure of trans people within society and the...
