HRTS455
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HRTS455 - Human Rights in the Middle East: Histories and Challenges
Course ID
041679
Course Description
In this course we will not merely focus on human rights challenges in one Middle Eastern country after another. We will instead explore the historical applications, challenges to and conflicts exacerbating the post WWII human rights framework in a thematic manner. Following the country of Syria (The Syrian Arab Republic) from its independence from France in the 1940s to the present moment, we will examine human rights issues in a series of modules. These will be:
1. Sovereignty and citizenship in the postwar era (with emphasis on gender and ethnicity)
2. Authoritarianism and the hollowing out of human rights discourse,
3. Islam, islamism and the challenges of universalizing human rights
4. Human rights based resistance.
5. Conflict, warfare and genocide and
6. Statelessness and regional and global human rights.
1. Sovereignty and citizenship in the postwar era (with emphasis on gender and ethnicity)
2. Authoritarianism and the hollowing out of human rights discourse,
3. Islam, islamism and the challenges of universalizing human rights
4. Human rights based resistance.
5. Conflict, warfare and genocide and
6. Statelessness and regional and global human rights.
Min Units
3
Max Units
3
Repeatable for Credit
No
Grading Basis
GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E
Career
Undergraduate
Course Attributes
CE - CL (Cross Listed)
Course Requisites
Cross Listed Courses
May be convened with
Component
Lecture
Optional Component
No