Human Rights Program Committee
(Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)
Human Rights (HUMR) Courses
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.
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.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Precludes additional credit for FYSM 1104.
Lecture and discussion groups/tutorials three hours a week.
Precludes additional credit for FYSM 1104.
Lecture and discussion groups/tutorials 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.
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.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
Lectures and discussion groups/tutorials three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
Lectures and discussion groups/tutorials three hours a week.
HUMR 2102 [0.5 credit]
Sexuality, Gender, and Security
Historical and contemporary analysis of surveillance, security, and regulation of sexuality, race, class, and gender. Students will critically examine how ‘subversives’ were created through discourse and administrative logics such as policy and law.
Sexuality, Gender, and Security
Historical and contemporary analysis of surveillance, security, and regulation of sexuality, race, class, and gender. Students will critically examine how ‘subversives’ were created through discourse and administrative logics such as policy and law.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Also listed as SXST 2102.
Prerequisite(s): second year standing or permission from the Institute.
Lectures and discussions three hours a week.
Also listed as SXST 2102.
Prerequisite(s): second year standing or permission from the Institute.
Lectures and discussions 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.
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.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
Lectures and discussion groups/tutorials three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
Lectures and discussion groups/tutorials 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.
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.
Lectures and discussion groups three hours a week.
Lectures and discussion groups three hours a week.
HUMR 2401 [0.5 credit]
Political Repression
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.
Political Repression
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.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
Lectures and discussion groups three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
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.
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.
Lectures and discussion groups three hours a week.
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.
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.
Lectures three hours a week.
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.
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.
Lectures three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): third year standing.
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.
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.
Lectures three hours a week.
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.
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.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing.
Seminar and discussion groups three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing.
Seminar and discussion groups three hours a week.
HUMR 3302 [0.5 credit]
Culture, Religion, and Women's Human Rights
The impact of cultural and religious traditions on gender, race, ethnicity and sexuality. Topics may include debates related to power dynamics, historical issues, geopolitics, and cultural relativism.
Culture, Religion, and Women's Human Rights
The impact of cultural and religious traditions on gender, race, ethnicity and sexuality. Topics may include debates related to power dynamics, historical issues, geopolitics, and cultural relativism.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
Lectures three hours a week.
HUMR 3303 [0.5 credit]
Children's Rights
This course examines children’s rights from a range of historical, cultural, and global perspectives. Topics may include the rights for Indigenous children, children with disabilities, female, trans and queer children, children in armed conflict and refugees in Canada and transnational contexts.
Children's Rights
This course examines children’s rights from a range of historical, cultural, and global perspectives. Topics may include the rights for Indigenous children, children with disabilities, female, trans and queer children, children in armed conflict and refugees in Canada and transnational contexts.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Also listed as CHST 3303.
Precludes additional credit for CHST 3901 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing.
Lectures and discussion groups three hours a week.
Also listed as CHST 3303.
Precludes additional credit for CHST 3901 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing.
Lectures and discussion groups three hours a week.
HUMR 3304 [0.5 credit]
Disability Rights
A critical approach to the study of disability rights that explores the intersections of disability with race, sexuality, gender, colonialism, ‘health’, and other discourses.
Disability Rights
A critical approach to the study of disability rights that explores the intersections of disability with race, sexuality, gender, colonialism, ‘health’, and other discourses.
Precludes additional credit for HUMR 4303 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing.
Lecture three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing.
Lecture three hours a week.
HUMR 3305 [0.5 credit]
Anti-Black Racism
The course examines conceptual linkages between race, racism and anti-black racism and how anti-Blackness racial prejudice is rooted in Black people’s experience of enslavement and colonization.
Anti-Black Racism
The course examines conceptual linkages between race, racism and anti-black racism and how anti-Blackness racial prejudice is rooted in Black people’s experience of enslavement and colonization.
Lecture 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.
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.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing.
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.
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.
Lectures three hours a week.
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.
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.
Lectures and discussion groups three hours a week.
Lectures and discussion groups three hours a week.
HUMR 3504 [0.5 credit]
Public Health 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.
Public Health 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.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Precludes additional credit for HUMR 3001 Section "A" if taken in 2013-14 and 2014-15.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
Precludes additional credit for HUMR 3001 Section "A" if taken in 2013-14 and 2014-15.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing.
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.
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.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing.
Seminar three hours a week.
Seminar three hours a week.
HUMR 4302 [0.5 credit]
Transgender Human Rights
Critical analyses of human rights through an examination of transgender subjectivities. The systemic erasure of trans people within society and the struggles of some activists to normalize trans identities.
Transgender Human Rights
Critical analyses of human rights through an examination of transgender subjectivities. The systemic erasure of trans people within society and the struggles of some activists to normalize trans identities.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing.
Seminar three hours a week.
Seminar three hours a week.
HUMR 4305 [0.5 credit]
Disability and Social Justice
An intersectional national/transnational approach to social justice issues such as poverty/exploitation, labour, representation, decolonization, race/racism, sexuality and gender from a critical disability studies perspective.
Disability and Social Justice
An intersectional national/transnational approach to social justice issues such as poverty/exploitation, labour, representation, decolonization, race/racism, sexuality and gender from a critical disability studies perspective.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing in Human Rights or Disability Studies.
Seminar three hours a week.
Seminar three hours a week.
HUMR 4401 [0.5 credit]
Gender, Citizenship and Social Justice in a Transnational World
This seminar critically engages with transnational, gendered, classed, and racialized discursive practices of citizenship, human rights, the geopolitics of knowledge and processes of dehumanization through the lenses of decolonial social justice.
Gender, Citizenship and Social Justice in a Transnational World
This seminar critically engages with transnational, gendered, classed, and racialized discursive practices of citizenship, human rights, the geopolitics of knowledge and processes of dehumanization through the lenses of decolonial social justice.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing.
Seminar three hours a week.
Seminar three hours a week.
HUMR 4404 [0.5 credit]
Rights of Refugees and Displaced Persons
Contemporary issues concerning the rights of refugees and displaced persons, from social, political, and legal perspectives; Canadian and international dimensions of these issues.
Rights of Refugees and Displaced Persons
Contemporary issues concerning the rights of refugees and displaced persons, from social, political, and legal perspectives; Canadian and international dimensions of these issues.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing.
Seminar and discussion groups three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing.
Seminar and discussion groups three hours a week.
HUMR 4405 [0.5 credit]
Digital Dis-information and Human Rights
The course examines the phenomenon of disinformation or ‘fake news’ in the era of digital technology, its intent and links to structures of power and oppression, and its impacts on human rights and the social justice.
Digital Dis-information and Human Rights
The course examines the phenomenon of disinformation or ‘fake news’ in the era of digital technology, its intent and links to structures of power and oppression, and its impacts on human rights and the social justice.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Seminar three hours a week.
Seminar three hours a week.
HUMR 4409 [0.5 credit]
Counter-terrorism and Human Rights
Examines policies and strategies states and international organizations use to combat global terrorism and the challenges these initiatives pose to the international human rights regime, democratic norms, and social justice.
Counter-terrorism and Human Rights
Examines policies and strategies states and international organizations use to combat global terrorism and the challenges these initiatives pose to the international human rights regime, democratic norms, and social justice.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing.
Seminar three hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing.
Seminar three hours per week.
HUMR 4502 [0.5 credit]
Global Indigenous Knowledges and Movements
Indigenous Peoples contributions to world knowledge through community resistance, social movements and scholarship. How processes of corporate globalization impact Indigenous Peoples lives as an ongoing process of normalizing a reconfigured modern coloniality of power.
Global Indigenous Knowledges and Movements
Indigenous Peoples contributions to world knowledge through community resistance, social movements and scholarship. How processes of corporate globalization impact Indigenous Peoples lives as an ongoing process of normalizing a reconfigured modern coloniality of power.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing.
Seminar three hours a week.
Seminar three hours a week.
HUMR 4504 [0.5 credit]
Black Health
The course examines conceptual linkages between race, racism and anti-black racism and how anti-Blackness racial prejudice is rooted in Black people’s experience of enslavement and colonization.
Black Health
The course examines conceptual linkages between race, racism and anti-black racism and how anti-Blackness racial prejudice is rooted in Black people’s experience of enslavement and colonization.
Seminar three hours a week
HUMR 4505 [0.5 credit]
Precarity in Labour and Work
This course explores how precarious employment and labour arises; the nature and forms of precariousness; how race, citizenship, gender, religion, and location impact precarity; the link between labor and social movements; and types of political and economic initiatives in response to the deepening precarity.
Precarity in Labour and Work
This course explores how precarious employment and labour arises; the nature and forms of precariousness; how race, citizenship, gender, religion, and location impact precarity; the link between labor and social movements; and types of political and economic initiatives in response to the deepening precarity.
Seminar three hours a week.
HUMR 4602 [0.5 credit]
Is Religious Freedom a Human Right?
Legal, theoretical, and theological interconnecƟons between religion and human rights. Evaluation of concepts including religious freedom, secularism, public sphere, accommodaƟon and neutrality.Examination of religion and culture, interdependence of legal and religious perspectives, boundaries of religion and state, and religious compulsion. Use of case studies.
Is Religious Freedom a Human Right?
Legal, theoretical, and theological interconnecƟons between religion and human rights. Evaluation of concepts including religious freedom, secularism, public sphere, accommodaƟon and neutrality.Examination of religion and culture, interdependence of legal and religious perspectives, boundaries of religion and state, and religious compulsion. Use of case studies.
Also listed as LAWS 4602, RELI 4602.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing.
Seminars three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing.
Seminars three hours a week.
HUMR 4905 [0.5 credit]
Practicum Placement in Human Rights I
This course provides students with the opportunity to spend one day per week (6-8 hours) working and learning at a human rights-related government, research or advocacy organization. A written report is required at the end of the placement. Graded as Sat/Uns.
Practicum Placement in Human Rights I
This course provides students with the opportunity to spend one day per week (6-8 hours) working and learning at a human rights-related government, research or advocacy organization. A written report is required at the end of the placement. Graded as Sat/Uns.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing in Human Rights or permission of the Institute.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing in Human Rights or permission of the Institute.
HUMR 4906 [0.5 credit]
Practicum Placement in Human Rights II
This course provides students with the opportunity to spend one day per week (6-8 hours) working and learning at a human rights-related government, research or advocacy organization. A written report is required at the end of the placement. Graded as Sat/Uns.
Practicum Placement in Human Rights II
This course provides students with the opportunity to spend one day per week (6-8 hours) working and learning at a human rights-related government, research or advocacy organization. A written report is required at the end of the placement. Graded as Sat/Uns.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing in Human Rights and a GPA of 9.8 or higher or permission of the Institute.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing in Human Rights and a GPA of 9.8 or higher or permission of the Institute.
HUMR 4907 [0.5 credit]
Special Topic in Human Rights
This course features a detailed study of a special topic in any area of Human Rights. Topics and themes will vary from year to year.
Special Topic in Human Rights
This course features a detailed study of a special topic in any area of Human Rights. Topics and themes will vary from year to year.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing.
Seminar three hours a week.
Seminar three hours a week.
HUMR 4908 [0.5 credit]
Independent Study
Essays and/or examinations based on a bibliography constructed by the student in consultation with an instructor.
Independent Study
Essays and/or examinations based on a bibliography constructed by the student in consultation with an instructor.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): normally restricted to students with at least 3.0 credits of Human Rights courses with at least a CGPA of 9.0 or better in Human Rights courses and permission of the Institute.
Prerequisite(s): normally restricted to students with at least 3.0 credits of Human Rights courses with at least a CGPA of 9.0 or better in Human Rights courses and permission of the Institute.
Note: Not all courses listed are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for the current session and to determine the term of offering, consult the class schedule at central.carleton.ca.
Summer session: some of the courses listed in this Calendar are offered during the summer. Hours and scheduling for summer session courses will differ significantly from those reported in the fall/winter Calendar. To determine the scheduling and hours for summer session classes, consult the class schedule at central.carleton.ca