Duration
14 weeks
Study method
100% online
Available loans
- FEE-HELP
Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Not required
Study terms
- 16 Jul 2018
- 15 Jul 2019
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Subject details
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Topics
- Introduction - thinking about human rights, cultures and religions
- Universalism and cultural relativism
- Dialogue as a means of overcoming barriers to human rights across cultures/religions
- Constructing human rights beyond the limits of the modern western view
- Human rights and Christianity
- Human rights - an African perspective
- Human rights and Islam
- Human rights and Indigenous peoples
- Human rights and Buddhism
- Rights to cultural identity
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Study resources
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Instructional Methods
- Discussion forum/Discussion Board
- Online assignment submission
- Podcasting/Lecture capture
- Streaming Multimedia
- Web links
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In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- CUR-HRI-MAS-2018
- CUR-HRI-GCE-2018
Elective
- OUA-PSU-GCE-2018
- UNE-PRO-GCE-2018
Special requirements
- EquipmentDetails - Audio/Visual equipment
This subject provides an overview of the development of the idea of human rights and related concepts in a range of cultures and religions. The subject begins with an exploration of the development of human rights in the Enlightenment tradition and then explores debates about the foundations of human rights. Other topics include cultural relativist critiques of human rights; non-western cultural traditions of human rights; the role and practice of dialogue; ideas of human rights in different religious traditions; colonialism and human rights; and Indigenous understandings of human rights and perspectives on rights protection, practice and education.
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- Readings report (30%)
- Presentation/engagement (30%)
- Final Essay (40%)
Textbooks are subject to change within the academic year. Students are advised to purchase their books no earlier than one to two months before the start of a subject.
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