Teaching Responsibility

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Humanities and Social Science

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Seminar

Module Offerings

6127HIST-JAN-MTP

Aims

To provide students with specialist knowledge of the history of humanitarian action and human rights activism in the 19th and 20th centuries and their intellectual, historical and political underpinnings. To provide students with an in-depth grasp of the current historiographical debates. To provide students with detailed knowledge of the history of humanitarian and human rights organizations, their campaigns and the modern human rights regime after 1945.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Independently engage with a variety of historical sources including film, television, newspaper reports and organization archives.
2.
Critically evaluate the links between the theory and practice of humanitarianism and human rights and their historical contexts.
3.
Present coherently and efficiently in an oral presentation the analysis of both primary and secondary sources.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:Recent Debates on the History of Human Rights The Enlightenment Roots of the Human Rights Discourse Universal, National, Personal? The European Debate 1815-1896 The Dreyfus Affair and the Foundation of the French League for Human Rights A Light that Failed? Human Rights and the League of Nations Exile and Resistance: International Responses to Fascism and the Holocaust The United Nations and the Creation of the First Human Rights Regime Biafra and the Greek Dictatorship: Two Early Human Rights Campaigns The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s The Chile and Anti-Apartheid Campaigns: Human Rights Activism as a Mass Phenomenon Human Rights in the 21st Century: Last Utopia or Ideology of Western Dominance?
Module Overview:
To provide students with specialist knowledge of the history of humanitarian action and human rights activism in the 19th and 20th centuries and their intellectual, historical and political underpinnings. To provide students with an in-depth grasp of the current historiographical debates. To provide students with detailed knowledge of the history of humanitarian and human rights organizations, their campaigns and the modern human rights regime after 1945..

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