Course description:

This course will examine universal human rights as an organizing framework for understanding the exceedingly complex global community in which we live today. It will examine significant social, political, philosophical, historical, legal, economic, geographic, and cultural factors that impact universal human rights. It will provide an overview of the challenges in implementing universal human rights, explore effective efforts to redress inequity, and examine opposing viewpoints. It will encourage students to engage in critical inquiry, cultural critique, personal self-reflection, and advocacy action in order to facilitate the development of a more humane global perspective for the 21st century. Course rationale: The University encourages the adaptation of an international and multi-cultural perspective. There appears to be general agreement among university faculty regarding the need to instill a global perspective in our students, regardless of academic discipline, in order to better prepare them for leadership in the 21st century. Yet this massive amount of cross-discipline content must be organize