2015-2016 Undergraduate Calendar / Undergraduate Programs / Human Rights

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Human Rights

Programs
Courses

Human Rights Program Committee
(Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)
2201 Dunton Tower
520-2600 ext 2368
http://carleton.ca/iis/programs-of-study/human-rights

This section presents the requirements for programs in:

Human Rights B.A. Honours
Human Rights B.A. Combined Honours
Human Rights and Law with Concentration in Transnational Law and Human Rights B.A. Combined Honours
Human Rights B.A. General

Graduation Requirements

In addition to the requirements listed below, students must satisfy:

the University regulations, including the process of Academic Performance Evaluation (see the Academic Regulations of the University section of this Calendar),
the common regulations applying to all B.A. students (see Academic Regulations for the Bachelor of Arts Degree ).

Students in the Human Rights program are exempt from the B.A. Breadth Requirement.

Students should consult the Human Rights Program Committee when planning their program and selecting courses.

Some of the Human Rights Electives have prerequisites that are not explicitly included in the program. Students should plan to have credit for the prerequisites of each course in their program or ask to have the prerequisite waived.

Course Categories by Thematic Group

Laws and Institutions
LAWS 2105 [0.5]	Social Justice and Human Rights
LAWS 2601 [0.5]	Public International Law
LAWS 3401 [0.5]	Employment Law
LAWS 3509 [0.5]	The Charter of Rights Topics
LAWS 3602 [0.5]	International Human Rights
LAWS 3604 [0.5]	International Organizations
LAWS 4601 [0.5]	Transnational Law and Human Rights
LAWS 4606 [0.5]	International Law of Armed Conflict
LAWS 4607 [0.5]	Immigration and Refugee Law
PSCI 2601 [0.5]	International Relations: Global Politics
PSCI 3600 [0.5]	International Institutions
PSCI 4109 [0.5]	The Politics of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Critical Principles
HUMR 2202 [0.5]	Power Relations and Human Rights
HUMR 3202 [0.5]	Human Rights and Resistance
HUMR 4201 [0.5]	Citizenship and Human Rights
LAWS 2105 [0.5]	Social Justice and Human Rights
LAWS 4101 [0.5]	Contemporary Justice Theories
LAWS 4102 [0.5]	Controversies in Rights Theory
LAWS 4105 [0.5]	Global Justice Theory
PHIL 2101 [0.5]	History of Ethics
PHIL 2103 [0.5]	Philosophy of Human Rights
PHIL 2306 [0.5]	Philosophy and Feminism
PHIL 2307 [0.5]	Gender and Philosophy
PHIL 2408 [0.5]	Bioethics
PHIL 3320 [0.5]	Contemporary Ethical Theory
PHIL 3330 [0.5]	Topics in History of Social and Political Philosophy
PHIL 3340 [0.5]	Topics in Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy
PSCI 3109 [0.5]	The Politics of Law and Morality
PSCI 3307 [0.5]	Politics of Human Rights
Marginalized Groups, Diversities & Identities
ANTH 2020 [0.5]	Race and Ethnicity
ANTH 3020 [0.5]	Studies in Race and Ethnicity
ANTH 3600 [0.5]	Studies in Anthropology and Indigenous Peoples
ANTH 4020 [0.5]	Advanced Studies in Race and Ethnicity
ANTH 4610 [0.5]	Advanced Studies in Indigenous Peoples of North America: Current Issues in Anthropological Research
HIST 3403 [1.0]	Comparative Slavery and Emancipation in the Atlantic World
HIST 3710 [0.5]	Themes in Caribbean History
HUMR 2301 [0.5]	Human Rights and Sexualities
HUMR 3301 [0.5]	Racialization, Racism and Human Rights
HUMR 3302 [0.5]	Culture, Religion, and Women's Human Rights
HUMR 3303 [0.5]	Children's Rights
HUMR 4302 [0.5]	Transgender Human Rights
HUMR 4401 [0.5]	Gender, Citizenship and Social Justice in a Transnational World
INDG 2010 [0.5]	Indigenous Encounters with Colonial and Nation-Building Projects in Canada
INDG 3010 [0.5]	Indigenous Resurgence, Rights and Resistance
LAWS 3503 [0.5]	Equality and Discrimination
LAWS 3504 [0.5]	Law and Aboriginal Peoples
LAWS 4001 [0.5]	Law, Family and Gender
LAWS 4002 [0.5]	Feminist Theories of Law
LAWS 4504 [0.5]	Aboriginal Criminal Justice
PSCI 2500 [0.5]	Gender and Politics
PSCI 3805 [0.5]	Politics of Race
PSCI 4205 [0.5]	Identity Politics
PSCI 4206 [0.5]	Indigenous Politics of North America
PSCI 4403 [0.5]	Reproductive Rights Policy in North America
PSCI 4605 [0.5]	Gender in International Relations
SOCI 2020 [0.5]	Race and Ethnicity
SOCI 3020 [0.5]	Studies in Race and Ethnicity
SOCI 3040 [0.5]	Studies in the Sociology of Gender
SOCI 4020 [0.5]	Advanced Studies in Race and Ethnicity
SOCI 4040 [0.5]	Advanced Studies in the Sociology of Gender
SOWK 4102 [0.5]	Aboriginal Peoples and Social Policy
SOWK 4300 [0.5]	Social Work: Persons with Disabilities
SXST 2101 [0.5]	Sexuality Studies: A Critical Introduction
SXST 4101 [0.5]	Interdisciplinary Studies of Sexuality
WGST 2800 [0.5]	Intersectional Identities
WGST 2803 [0.5]	Body Matters: The Politics of Bodies
WGST 3803 [0.5]	Feminisms and Transnationalism
WGST 3807 [0.5]	Gendered Violence
WGST 4803 [0.5]	Globalized Bodies
Political Violence, Persecution and Repression
HIST 3714 [0.5]	Holocaust Encounters
HUMR 2401 [0.5]	Political Repression: Impacts and Responses
HUMR 2402 [0.5]	Agents of Political Violence
HUMR 3401 [0.5]	Histories of Persecution and Genocide
HUMR 4402 [0.5]	Terror and Human Rights
HUMR 4404 [0.5]	Rights of Refugees and Displaced Persons
LAWS 4106 [0.5]	Law and Violence
LAWS 4304 [0.5]	Policing and Social Surveillance
LAWS 4309 [0.5]	State Security and Dissent
LAWS 4601 [0.5]	Transnational Law and Human Rights
LAWS 4603 [0.5]	Transitional Justice
LAWS 4606 [0.5]	International Law of Armed Conflict
LAWS 4607 [0.5]	Immigration and Refugee Law
PSCI 3107 [0.5]	The Causes of War
PSCI 3702 [0.5]	Israeli-Palestinian Relations
PSCI 4807 [0.5]	Migration and Mobility: Politics of Citizenship and Identity
PSCI 4817 [0.5]	International Politics of Forced Migration
RELI 3140 [0.5]	Holocaust Encounters
Social and Economic Justice
ANTH 2850 [0.5]	Development and Underdevelopment
ANTH 3025 [0.5]	Anthropology and Human Rights
ANTH 3027 [0.5]	Studies in Globalization and Human Rights
ANTH 4730 [0.5]	Colonialism and Post-Colonialism
ANTH 4750 [0.5]	Advanced Studies in Globalization and Citizenship
HIST 3217 [0.5]	Empire and Globalization
HIST 3702 [0.5]	The Scramble for Africa, 1876-1918
HUMR 2502 [0.5]	Social and Political Movements
HUMR 3002 [0.5]	Right to the City
HUMR 3501 [0.5]	Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
HUMR 3502 [0.5]	Corporations and Human Rights
HUMR 3503 [0.5]	Global Environmental Justice
HUMR 3504 [0.5]	Health Policy and Human Rights
HUMR 4502 [0.5]	Global Indigenous Knowledges and Movements
LAWS 4800 [0.5]	Environment and Social Justice
PSCI 2102 [0.5]	Comparative Politics of the Global South
PSCI 2602 [0.5]	International Relations: Global Political Economy
PSCI 3100 [0.5]	Politics of Development in Africa
PSCI 3105 [0.5]	Imperialism
PSCI 3204 [0.5]	Politics of Latin America
PSCI 3502 [0.5]	Gender and Politics: Global South
PSCI 3802 [0.5]	Globalization and Human Rights
PSCI 4104 [0.5]	Theory and Practice of Development in the Global South
PSCI 4105 [0.5]	Selected Problems in Development in the Global South
PSCI 4500 [0.5]	Gender and Globalization
SOCI 2010 [0.5]	Power and Stratification
SOCI 3010 [0.5]	Studies in Power and Stratification
SOCI 3027 [0.5]	Globalization and Human Rights
SOCI 3040 [0.5]	Studies in the Sociology of Gender
SOCI 3044 [0.5]	Sociology of Sex and Sexuality
SOCI 3430 [0.5]	Studies in Collective Action and Social Movements
SOCI 4010 [0.5]	Advanced Studies in Power and Stratification
SOCI 4040 [0.5]	Advanced Studies in the Sociology of Gender
SOCI 4730 [0.5]	Colonialism and Post-Colonialism
SOCI 4750 [0.5]	Advanced Studies in Globalization and Citizenship
SOWK 3206 [0.5]	Community Development and Social Change in an International Context
SOWK 3207 [0.5]	Human Rights Practice in Civil Society
WGST 2800 [0.5]	Intersectional Identities
WGST 2801 [0.5]	Activism, Feminisms, and Social Justice
WGST 2807 [0.5]	Issues in Reproductive Health
WGST 4807 [0.5]	Gender and Health in a Globalized World
Human Rights Electives
HUMR 3001 [0.5]	Special Topics in Human Rights
HUMR 4905 [0.5]	Practicum Placement in Human Rights I
HUMR 4906 [0.5]	Practicum Placement in Human Rights II
HUMR 4907 [0.5]	Special Topic in Human Rights
HUMR 4908 [0.5]	Independent Study

Program Requirements

Human Rights
B.A. Honours (20.0 credits)

A. Credits Included in the Major CGPA (9.0 credits)
1. 1.0 credit from:		1.0
HUMR 1001 [1.0]	Introduction to Human Rights
FYSM 1104 [1.0]	Human Rights: Issues and Investigations
FYSM 1502 [1.0]	Selected Topics in Legal Studies (specifically the section on Global Governance and Human Rights)
or approved FYSM
2. 0.5 credit in:		0.5
HUMR 2001 [0.5]	Human Rights: Theories and Foundations
3. 0.5 credit in:		0.5
HUMR 2202 [0.5]	Power Relations and Human Rights
4. 0.5 credit from:		0.5
LAWS 2105 [0.5]	Social Justice and Human Rights
PHIL 2103 [0.5]	Philosophy of Human Rights
PSCI 3307 [0.5]	Politics of Human Rights
5. 2.5 credits, comprised of 0.5 credit from each of the five Thematic Groups (see list under Course Categories)		2.5
6. 1.0 credit at the 4000-level from Thematic Groups and/or Human Rights Electives (see lists under Course Categories)		1.0
7. 3.0 credits from Thematic Groups and/or Human Rights Electives (see lists under Course Categories)		3.0
B. Credits Not Included in the Major CGPA (11.0 credits)
8. 11.0 credits in free electives.		11.0
Total Credits		20.0

Human Rights
B.A. Combined Honours (20.0 credits)

A. Credits Included in the Major CGPA (7.0 credits)
1. 1.0 credit from:		1.0
HUMR 1001 [1.0]	Introduction to Human Rights
FYSM 1104 [1.0]	Human Rights: Issues and Investigations
FYSM 1502 [1.0]	Selected Topics in Legal Studies (specifically the section on Global Governance and Human Rights)
or approved FYSM
2. 0.5 credit in:		0.5
HUMR 2001 [0.5]	Human Rights: Theories and Foundations
3. 0.5 credit in:		0.5
HUMR 2202 [0.5]	Power Relations and Human Rights
4. 0.5 credit from:		0.5
LAWS 2105 [0.5]	Social Justice and Human Rights
PHIL 2103 [0.5]	Philosophy of Human Rights
PSCI 3307 [0.5]	Politics of Human Rights
5. 2.5 credits, comprised of 0.5 credit from each of the five Thematic Groups (see list under Course Categories)		2.5
6. 1.0 credit at the 4000-level from Thematic Groups and/or Human Rights Electives (see lists under Course Categories)		1.0
7. 1.0 credit from Thematic Groups and/or Human Rights Electives (see lists under Course Categories)		1.0
B. Additional Credit Requirements (13.0 credits)		13.0
8. The requirements for the other discipline must be satisfied
9. Sufficient free electives to make 20.0 credits total for the program
Total Credits		20.0

Human Rights and Law with Concentration in Transnational Law and Human Rights
B.A. Combined Honours (20.0 credits)

A. Credits Included in the Major CGPA (7.0 credits)
1. 1.0 credit from:		1.0
HUMR 1001 [1.0]	Introduction to Human Rights
FYSM 1104 [1.0]	Human Rights: Issues and Investigations
FYSM 1502 [1.0]	Selected Topics in Legal Studies (the section on Global Governance and Human Rights)
or approved FYSM
2. 0.5 credit in:		0.5
HUMR 2001 [0.5]	Human Rights: Theories and Foundations
3. 0.5 credit in:		0.5
HUMR 2202 [0.5]	Power Relations and Human Rights
4. 2.5 credits, comprised of 0.5 credit from each of the five Thematic Groups (see list under Course Categories)		2.5
5. 1.0 credit at the 4000-level from Thematic Groups and/or Human Rights Electives (see lists under Course Categories)		1.0
6. 1.5 credits from Thematic Groups and/or Human Rights Electives (see lists under Course Categories)		1.5
B. Additional Credit Requirements (13.0 credits)		13.0
7. The requirements for the other discipline must be satisfied
8. Sufficient free electives to make 20.0 credits total for the program .
Total Credits		20.0

Human Rights
B.A. General (15.0 credits)

A. Credits Included in the Major CGPA (7.0 credits)
1. 1.0 credit from:		1.0
HUMR 1001 [1.0]	Introduction to Human Rights
FYSM 1104 [1.0]	Human Rights: Issues and Investigations
FYSM 1502 [1.0]	Selected Topics in Legal Studies (specifically the section on Global Governance and Human Rights)
or an approved First-Year Seminar
2. 0.5 credit in:		0.5
HUMR 2001 [0.5]	Human Rights: Theories and Foundations
3. 0.5 credit in:		0.5
HUMR 2202 [0.5]	Power Relations and Human Rights
4. 0.5 credit from:		0.5
LAWS 2105 [0.5]	Social Justice and Human Rights
PHIL 2103 [0.5]	Philosophy of Human Rights
PSCI 3307 [0.5]	Politics of Human Rights
5. 2.5 credits, comprised of 0.5 credit from each of the five Thematic Groups (see list under Course Categories)		2.5
6. 1.0 credit at the 3000- or 4000-level from Thematic Groups and/or Human Rights Electives (see lists under Course Categories)		1.0
7. 1.0 credit from Thematic groups and/or Human Rights Electives (see lists under Course Categories)		1.0
B. Credits Not Included in the Major CGPA (8.0 credits)
8. 8.0 credits in free electives.		8.0
Total Credits		15.0

Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

HUMR 1001 [1.0 credit]
Introduction to Human Rights
Human rights from an interdisciplinary perspective. Topics may include the foundations and nature of rights, roots of inequality and oppression, aboriginal rights, racism, women and rights, sexual orientation, state and corporate power, economic exploitation, the environment and rights, warfare, torture, and social movements.

Precludes additional credit for FYSM 1104 and ISSC 1001/ANTH 1010/SOCI 1010 (no longer offered).
Lecture and discussion groups three hours a week.

HUMR 2001 [0.5 credit]
Human Rights: Theories and Foundations
Historical overview of the theoretical and philosophical approaches underlying the human rights movement and relevant to the normative ideals and aspirations of human rights and to the strategies of their implementation.

Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Institute.
Lectures and discussion groups three hours a week.

HUMR 2202 [0.5 credit]
Power Relations and Human Rights
The study of power from a critical, transnational perspective; the impact on human rights of different forms and modalities of power, including those emanating from the state and corporations and those implicated in socio-economic and other hierarchical relations.

Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Institute.
Lectures and discussion groups three hours a week.

HUMR 2301 [0.5 credit]
Human Rights and Sexualities
Human rights issues in various cultural contexts concerning sex and/or gender, with attention to sexual minorities such as gay, lesbian, and transgendered persons. Forms of discrimination against sexual minorities and the mechanisms and strategies for redress.

Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Institute.
Lectures and discussion groups three hours a week.

HUMR 2401 [0.5 credit]
Political Repression: Impacts and Responses
Canada is home-in-exile to many who have faced severe and often life-threatening political repression such as imprisonment, torture, surveillance, population transfer, etc. This course examines the impacts on survivors of political repression, and strategies used to overcome its legacies.

Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Institute.
Lectures and discussion groups three hours a week.

HUMR 2402 [0.5 credit]
Agents of Political Violence
The processes used in preparing individuals to commit torture, murder and other forms of violence on behalf of a state or associated organizations, and how such violence is justified by its direct perpetrators, their commanders (police/military and political), and members of their society.

Precludes additional credit for HUMR 3402 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Institute.
Lectures and discussion groups three hours a week.

HUMR 2502 [0.5 credit]
Social and Political Movements
The underlying conditions and developments of historical and contemporary social and political movements; specific social movements such as civil rights or gay rights.

Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Institute.
Lectures and discussion groups three hours a week.

HUMR 3001 [0.5 credit]
Special Topics in Human Rights
This advanced seminar will cover current and topical issues and/or debates in human rights, and will enable students to engage in focused discussions and analyses of these issues. Topics will vary from year to year.

Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Institute.
Lectures three hours a week.

HUMR 3002 [0.5 credit]
Right to the City
“The right to the city” as an emerging focus of advocacy and analysis in urban movements for social justice around especially the local and transnational dimensions of the “right to the city” movement.

Precludes additional credit for HUMR 3001 if taken prior to 2013-14.
Prerequisite(s): third year standing or permission of the Institute.
Lectures three hours a week.

HUMR 3202 [0.5 credit]
Human Rights and Resistance
This course problematizes human rights paradigms and critically examines the limitations of the political within liberal democracies. Bringing together theory and politics, alternative approaches to activism are explored. Topics may include struggles grounded in radical democracy, anti-capitalism, and social justice perspectives.

Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Institute.
Lectures three hours a week.

HUMR 3301 [0.5 credit]
Racialization, Racism and Human Rights
The forms and effects of systemic race-based human rights abuses. Topics may include immigration and refugee policies and practices, anti-apartheid regimes, racial profiling, the racial politics of "nationhood" and armed conflict, civil rights and resistance movements in differing cultural contexts.

Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Institute.
Lectures three hours a week.

HUMR 3302 [0.5 credit]
Culture, Religion, and Women's Human Rights
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, cultural relativism, and strategies used to advance women's human rights such as NGOs engagements with CEDAW.

Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Institute.
Lectures three hours a week.

HUMR 3303 [0.5 credit]
Children's Rights
This course profiles the global human rights issues of children and relates them to the international treaties and mechanisms to address them. Topics may include children in armed conflict; child sex tourism; the rights of indigenous children; and gender-based violence against children.

Also listed as CHST 3303.
Precludes additional credit for CHST 3901 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Institute.
Lectures three hours a week.

HUMR 3401 [0.5 credit]
Histories of Persecution and Genocide
Case studies in persecution and/or genocide in different cultural contexts. The social, political, and legal conditions that have enabled the institutional or state-sanctioned persecution of targeted groups, and the circumstances that had an impact on their decline.

Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Institute.
Lectures three hours a week.

HUMR 3501 [0.5 credit]
Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
The development of social, economic and cultural rights, including rights to housing, healthcare, education and employment. Topics may include the international geopolitics of the historical tension between these rights and civil and political rights.

Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Institute.
Lectures three hours a week.

HUMR 3502 [0.5 credit]
Corporations and Human Rights
Corporate involvement in human rights violations, with attention to how corporations encourage, participate in, and benefit from political repression and warfare. How the relationship between corporate and state interests affects the implementation of measures for corporate accountability.

Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Institute.
Lectures three hours a week.

HUMR 3503 [0.5 credit]
Global Environmental Justice
Overview of critical debates on environmental issues from a global social justice perspective. Topics may include corporate mining, food sovereignty, poverty, economic exploitation, Indigenous cosmologies and environmental justice, militarization and environmental degradation, privatization of water and climate change.

Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Institute.
Lectures three hours a week.

HUMR 3504 [0.5 credit]
Health Policy and Human Rights
Through a social-scientific analysis of AIDS, this course explores HIV/AIDS as a case study for understanding the politics of public health. Students will critically interrogate the authority of science and explore avenues for democratizing biomedicine and public health policy in various national and policy contexts.

Precludes additional credit for HUMR 3001 Section "A" if taken in 2013-14 and 2014-15.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Institute.
Lectures three hours a week.

HUMR 4201 [0.5 credit]
Citizenship and Human Rights
The relationship between citizenship and human rights; how large groups of people, including non-citizens and refugees, are excluded from entitlements to rights. Why human rights rest on citizenship, and with what implications.