This course uses a critical human rights approach to examine Middle Eastern cultures and society. Students explore social change in the Middle East, with a specific focus on the politics of religion, gender, and identity, both within and beyond the region's borders and the socio-political factors affecting their human rights. Historical as well as modern […]
(Cross-listed as AP/PPAS 4052 3.00) Focuses on training students to analyze and construct public policy analysis on social issues through the lens of race and ethnicity. Through this course, public policy analysis will be utilized as a tool for understanding and impacting the prevailing social agenda from a race and ethnicity perspective. Course credit exclusions: […]
This course uses a critical human rights approach to examine Jewish communities in a variety of historical and contemporary settings, including immigration experience, family life, culture and identity. This course covers theoretical and historical topics about Jewish groups in the diaspora as being both an international and a religious entity, and not just exclusively one […]
This course enables students to do a supervised 6-credit 3000-level directed reading course. Students must be accepted by a faculty supervisor before they can register in the course. The course transaction form for this course must be submitted with the supervisors name and signature stating their willingness to supervise the student. Note: BAs in HREQ […]
This course enables students to do a supervised 3-credit 3000-level directed reading course. Students must be accepted by a faculty supervisor before they can register in the course. The course transaction form for this course must be submitted with the supervisor's name and signature stating their willingness to supervise the student. Note: BAs in HREQ […]
This course incorporates a critical human rights and critical pedagogy to examine inequality and equity in education from a human rights perspective. It engages with critical human rights literature linking educational rights to critical human rights. This course challenges racism, marginalization and discrimination blocking the access, participation, and achievement of racialized and minority students, at […]
This course uses a critical human rights approach to explore issues involving the social and cultural impact of language. Students gain the conceptual tools to analyze the relationship between linguistic rights and human rights, and discusses topics such as language and identity, ethnolinguistic nationalism, and the emergence of new languages. The course explores the centrality […]
This course uses a critical human rights approach to examine violence, torture, cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment understood as settlement issues and as issues in international human rights. It engages with survivors' experiences in countries of origin and transit countries, the human costs and challenges of the entry process into the host country, and resilience-building […]
This course uses a critical human rights approach to explore economic, social, and structural powers that allow violence against children. Topics include the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other legislation for children, UN children organizations, and the role of civil society and government. The course will focus on the globalization of 'the […]
This course uses a critical human rights approach to understand the role of community action and advocacy in enhancing social justice outcomes. Grassroots movements to effect social change and combat discrimination in all its forms are explored. Students will be able to connect personal experiences with social issues and acquire both macro- and micro social […]