HUM1MK20HKI Human rights concepts and theories (5cr)
Code: HUM1005Y17S-3002
General information
- Enrollment
- 01.03.2019 - 18.03.2019
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 20.01.2020 - 30.04.2020
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- Innovaatiot ja kumppanuudet
- Campus
- Helsinki
- Teaching languages
- English
- Seats
- 0 - 100
- Degree programmes
- MA of Social Services and Health Care
- Teachers
- Ville Päivänsalo
- Mikko Malkavaara
- Course
- HUM1005Y17S
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Objective
After completing the course, students will be able to
- apply the various concepts, principles and theories of human rights in addressing community problems
- analyse the history, origins and developments of human rights in the regional, national and international context
- explain how the main institutional human rights framework contributes to the protection of human rights in local, regional, national and global communities
- identify different regional human rights policies, implementations and practices
- explain the relationship between human rights and other socio economic concepts
Content
- key concepts, principles and theories of human rights
- historical development and main aspects of the human rights discourse categorizations, applications and relativity of human rights
- civil/political rights and social/economic/cultural rights human rights and corresponding duties selected human rights conventions, CRC and CEDAW
- contemporary human rights issues as applicable in different communities
- human rights and socio economic concepts