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Undergraduate Course Descriptions
- HMR 131 Genocide | Keith Watenpaugh
Comparative and critical study of the modern phenomenon of genocide from religious, ethical and historical perspectives.
General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH) or Social Sciences (SS); Visual Literacy (VL); World Cultures (WC); Writing Experience (WE).
- HMR 136 Human Rights in the Middle East | Keith Watenpaugh
Study of the experience of Human Rights in the modern Middle East, with special attention to the Human Rights issues raised by events of Arab Spring; Palestine-Israel conflict; history of genocide, mass killing and totalitarianism in the region.
General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH) or Social Sciences (SS); World Cultures (WC); Writing Experience (WE).
- HMR 138 Human Rights, Gender, & Sexuality | Lucia Luna-Victoria Indacochea
Gender and sexuality in the context of human rights. Topics include women's participation in the public sphere, the right to change gender, the right for family privacy, and the right to marriage.
General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH); World Cultures (WC); Writing Experience (WE).
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Graduate Courses for the Designated Emphasis in Human Rights
- HMR 200B Memory, Culture, & Human Rights | Michael Lazzara
Explores the multiple convergences among memory, culture, and human rights. Discusses diverse approaches to how societal actors in different historical, cultural, and national settings, construct meanings of past political violence, inter-group conflicts, and human rights struggles.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor.