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CIDS 640 - Human Rights and Global Development

Credits: 3
This course examines the philosophical and legal origins of human rights, the evolution of human rights, and key human rights documents. The course explores the contemporary conceptions and meanings of human rights and development, examining points of convergence and tensions between human rights and development theory and practice. The course adopts a human-rights based approach regarding how plans, policies, and processes of development are anchored in a system of rights and corresponding obligations established by international law. 

Grade Mode: Normal (A-F,I,W)
Schedule Type: Lecture
College Code: CAS


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