Overview
Description
This course will survey the history of human rights and international law, particularly during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall - Even Years
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- analyze, evaluate, and interpret primary sources with attention to content, historical and cultural context, genre, and language.
- analyze and clearly explain the argument, main points, and use of evidence in secondary sources through class discussion and written assignments.
- analyze and synthesize arguments from primary and secondary sources to craft an original interpretation about the history of human rights.
- describe how evolving and conflicting understandings human rights were shaped by their global context.
- describe the evolution of ethical debates about human rights in recent centuries.
- integrate what has been learned in previous classes to this course’s historical approach to human rights and bring that knowledge to bear on a contemporary issue of ethical concern related to human rights or international law.
- integrate experiences and knowledge from past coursework and this class into crafting an exhibit or presentation, applying best practices from public history.
- write a lengthy historiographical analysis or research paper in which historiography figures prominently.
- identify the main themes of the field in individual and group discussions.
- analyze examples of major secondary works in the field.
- demonstrate an ability to integrate scholarship into a public history setting.