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HIST227 Human Rights in History

10 cp
Prerequisites 10 cp from 100-level units in History
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for twelve weeks or equivalent of lectures, tutorials and/or workshops.

This unit examines the historical significance of the global search for social justice and human rights. Debates about human rights now play vital roles in the international conversations on trade, diplomacy, and peace. The search for social justice is recognised as impinging on the economic, social and political development of every nation. While focussing primarily on questions raised by events in the last 100 years, the unit will explore the evolution of notions of equality and the search for human dignity since the eighteenth century.

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