Postgraduate CUR-CHRE507-2019

Human Rights and Development

Balance the relationship between human rights and economic development concerns.Learn how development was used to justify human rights abuses. Probe colonialist and anti-colonialist ways of thinking. Identify environmental development issues.

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2019

Duration

14 weeks

Student rating

4.29

Study method

100% online

Available loans

FEE-HELP

Assessments

100% online

Prior study

Not required

Study terms

25 Feb 2019

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What you'll learn

At the completion of this subject students will be able to:

describe and critique human rights and development theories
use appropriate technologies to locate and critically appraise relevant human rights and development literature
critically analyse human rights and development issues discussed in the media and literature
critically analyse development projects using a human rights framework.

Topics covered

- Introduction to human rights and development
- Basic needs approach to development
- Capability approach to development
- Rights-based approach to development
- Human security approach to development
- Development and the role of international financial and trade institutions
- African perspectives on human rights and development
- Development, human rights and the environment
Study resources
- Instructional methods
  - Discussion forum/Discussion Board
  - Online assignment submission
  - Podcasting/Lecture capture
  - Streaming Multimedia
  - Web links

Entry requirements

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

CUR-HRI-MAS-2019
CUR-HRI-GCE-2019

Elective

OUA-PSU-GCE-2019
UNE-PRO-GCE-2019

Special requirements

EquipmentDetails - Audio/Visual equipment

Description

This subject explores development by critiquing dominant models of economic development and exploring the relationship of human rights to development issues and development practice. It also focuses on colonialism and anticolonialist practice; human rights abuses of Indigenous populations in the name of 'development'; Indigenous understandings of human rights and challenges to colonialist development; human rights, development and environmental issues; gender and development; and the role of international financial and trade institutions in development.

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Find out more about the Academic Integrity module.

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