Sociology of Human Rights

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Human rights are approached from a comparative historical and interdisciplinary perspective. Students learn about foundational notions of human rights as they are interpreted in accordance with various belief systems and secular humanist philosophy; the UN-based human rights regime; and contemporary challenges to the realization of human rights in the global era. Taught from a sociological perspective, this course takes a critical approach to the study and analysis of the human rights system, with special focus on contradictions, failures, and collective mobilization. <i>GT/IES/IPJ</i>