This work-focused, course-based placement provides HREQ majors with an intensive experiential education opportunity in their fourth year in exchange for academic credit. Participants will apply their skills and knowledge in the area of human rights and equity as they work with community organizations, government agencies, non-profit agencies, or other relevant groups. In addition to exploring […]
Compares popular culture in reference to critical human rights, virtues and duties in the Western world, including movies, television, literature, animated films and sports with media in China and Japan. Explores modern and ancient cultural forms in relation to religion, philosophy and the self. Contrasts themes of duty, rights and virtues embedded within popular culture […]
(Cross-listed as AP/SOSC 1930 6.00) This course introduces current issues related to health and equity from a critical human rights perspective. It examines the interrelationship of health, disease, and socio-economic structures, and includes scholarly research about medical practices, health institutions in Canada and globally, and the social determinants of health. Students learn about the history […]
(Cross-listed as AP/SOSC 1920 6.00 - Male-Female Relationships) This course introduces current issues related to gender relations from a critical human rights perspective. It explores gender and interpersonal relations, and concepts of love, historically and through contemporary lived experience. Themes include the influence of language on gendered encounters, the importance of respect and equity in […]
(Cross-listed as AP/SOSC 1900 6.00) This course introduces current issues and research related to sexuality, gender, and society from a critical human rights perspective. It examines challenges to traditional institutional conceptions of sexuality, including discourses of heteronormativity, hypermasculinity, sexual and moral regulation, gender fluidity, gender expression, sexuality, and LGBTQ2+ identities as human rights and equity […]
(Cross-listed as AP/SOSC 1880 6.00) This course explores issues related to social change in Canada from a critical human rights perspective. It surveys major advances in equity in Canadian society and explores instances of profound ethnocultural and socioeconomic change, including colonization and reconciliation; the building of the welfare state and its retrenchment under neoliberalism; post-WWII […]
(Cross-listed as AP/SOSC 1800 6.00) This course introduces issues related to justice for children from a critical human rights perspective. It incorporates social/legal justice as it applies to the rights of children, drawing on critical social theories, critical legal studies, and critical criminology, and examines how children are influenced by the family, education, media, culture, […]
(Cross-listed as AP/SOSC 1040 6.00) This course introduces the concept of power from a critical human rights perspective, as expressed in social institutions and ideologies such as patriarchy, consumerism, culture, and through issues of injustice including oppression, war, and environmental destruction. Human society is understood as the product of powerful and competing social forces, and […]
(Cross-listed as AP/INDG 2030 6.00) Colonialism and racial conflict are examined in historical and comparative perspective, including a discussion of links between racism and sexism, and the experiences of Indigenous peoples. Examples are drawn from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Middle East. Course credit exclusions: Prior to Fall 2018: AP/MIST 3620/AP/POLS 3565 6.00; Prior […]
This course uses a critical human rights approach to explore examples of historical and contemporary atrocities, genocides, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, with special focus on prominent cases including the Holocaust and the decimations of Indigenous populations in the New World. We will examine the historical, social, economic, and cultural conditions that produce and […]