- Autumn 2019
Syllabus Description:
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course syllabus can be downloaded here.
This course is an elective course for the comparative legal institutions and human rights track of the Law, Society and Justice Program. There are no pre-requisites for the course. The course is both interdisciplinary and comparative rather than having a United States focus. The purpose of the course is to expose students to the complex issues - social, political, economic and legal - that characterize women’s rights around the globe. Students will be asked to think critically about women’s rights while thinking comparatively about the varying domestic and international settings that can alter the meaning and practical application of these rights. The course will focus on various substantive areas of rights - from reproductive rights to health rights - at the domestic level. And we will also focus on women’s rights at the international level - in such areas as the issue of rape as a war crime and sex trafficking.
Further, students will be asked to conduct research on a women’s rights topic of their choice and to present their findings to class participants. The course will provide students with an introduction to and assistance in utilizing the web as a tool for conducting research on women’s rights.
COURSE LEARNING GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
- Critically analyze and examine global women's right issues
- Critically assess policy approaches and solutions for global women's rights issues
- Construct and conduct an independent research project on a global women's rights issue of your choice
- Acquire and apply skills to share your research analysis including writing a Research Paper