HIST8245
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HIST 8245 - Human Rights: A Global History (3 Cr.)
History Department (10968)
TCLA - College of Liberal Arts
Course description
This course will focus on debates and social movements concerning human rights in the broadest sense, beginning with the seventeenth century and ending in the 1950s. Topics include colonization, slavery, torture, war crimes, rights to land, women's rights, sexual rights, and indigenous self-determination. The seminar will require a research or historiographical paper.
Minimum credits
3
Maximum credits
3
Is this course repeatable?
No
Grading basis
AFV - A-F or Audit
Lecture
Fulfills the writing intensive requirement?
No
Typically offered term(s)
Periodic Fall & Spring