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GWS 348 - Gender and Human Rights (3 cr.)

This course begins with the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and examines how Western ideas of rights have influenced human rights movements around the world. The focus of the course is on gendered human rights violations and movements to end gendered human rights abuses. The primary objective of this course is to examine how Western frameworks of rights have been appropriated and criticized in human rights discourses, laws, and activism in both Western and non-Western nations, as well as transnational movements.
Liberal arts
Prerequisite(s): GWS 101   or one of the following: GWS 301  , PSY 101  , SOC 101  , HIS 101  , ANT 102  , or POI.
General Education Category: Western Civilization
Semester(s) Offered: Spring


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