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Human Rights and Development
Postgraduate | CUR-CHRE507 | 2020
Course information for 2020 intake
View information for 2021 course intakeBalance 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.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
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Human Rights and Development
About this subject
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.
- 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
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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- Media Report Critique (20%)
- Presentation (30%)
- Essay (50%)
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Entry requirements
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Additional requirements
- Equipment requirements - Audio/Visual equipment
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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