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HRTD6916: Human Rights Simulation

2025 unit information

This unit of study will provide students the opportunity to assume institutional roles within the international human rights and refugee regime framework, and understand its opportunities and constraints in responding to social problems rooted in inequality, precarity and violence. This unit reaches beyond traditional classroom instruction by simulating a range of human rights and migration issues to which students must respond, engaging students in exercises designed to practice skills for future human rights advocacy, including data collection, interview techniques, and engaging with the media.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Arts and Social Sciences

Study level Postgraduate
Academic unit Sociology and Criminology
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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None
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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None
Assumed knowledge:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. understand the relationships between human rights victims, violators, and protectors
  • LO2. analyse the human rights system (both violations and appropriate responses) on multiple spatial levels (local, national, regional and international)
  • LO3. demonstrate written and spoken communication skills
  • LO4. establish the challenges and benefits of group work
  • LO5. demonstrate knowledge in range of advocacy strategies and tactics and knowledge in critical reflection of their implementation.

Unit availability

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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 1 2024
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 1 2025
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 1 2020
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 1 2021
Normal day Remote
Semester 1 2022
Normal evening Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 1 2022
Normal evening Remote
Semester 2 2023
Normal evening Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney

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