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SLSS3602: Human Rights: Law, Policy and Protest
2025 unit information
Global human rights and the idea of 'one humanity' became politically possible with the end of the Cold War. This unit explores the production of the human rights system as a top-down process of legalisation, institutionalisation, social policy development and intervention and the bottom-up process of victim claim-making, collective mobilisation and transnational advocacy.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Sociology and Criminology |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 2000 level in Socio-Legal Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Criminology |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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SCLG2624 |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Understand the interconnections between human rights, protest, law and policy
- LO2. Critically analyse the relationship between law and race, gender and sexuality
- LO3. Identify and analyze different theoretical perspectives on human rights and social protest
- LO4. Locate and critique relevant information concerning contemporary human rights issues
- LO5. Understand contemporary challenges to human rights
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| Session | MoA ? | Location | Outline ? |
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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