College of Social Sciences and International Studies
The Politics of Human Rights
Module POLM077 for 2016/7
Module POLM077 for 2016/7
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
POLM077: The Politics of Human Rights
This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.
Module Aims
The module will:
1) familiarise you with critical perspectives on the politics of human rights within contemporary political theory;
2) examine the fruitfulness of the concept of the political for understanding the politics of human rights;
3) reflect on the nature of politics and its thematization within different traditions of political thought.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. critically evaluate what is political (and, potentially, apolitical, unpolitical or anti-political) about human rights; 2. interpret a human rights issue (broadly understood) in terms of one of the key concepts (e.g. biopolitics or dissensus) discussed on this moodule |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. work with complex political concepts in order to (re)describe and evaluate political phenomena 4. evaluate the relative insightfulness of competing theoretical interpretations of political phenomena; |
Personal and Key Skills | 5. independently design and undertake advanced research 6. communicate effectively in speech and writing |