Introduction to Human Rights SOWK-5109

The course is designed to impart knowledge about meaning, scope and importance of human rights in welfare keeping in view our own cultural set-up.

This course seeks to help students to:
·        develop analytical skills to question and appraise human rights policies and practices at the international and national levels;
·        enhance understanding of fact-finding methodology and develop interview skills;
·        gain substantive knowledge of the international law and policy of human rights and consider prevailing trends in the human rights field and of the challenge and contribution of critics;
·        perceive improvements, discern ambiguities and identify contradictions in the human rights movement;
·        draw useful conclusions about the roles of various state and non-state actors in the identification of rights and in their promotion and enforcement; and
·        identify potential roles for oneself in the promotion of human rights.