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human rights minor

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The Accounting minor provides a mastery of accounting knowledge that enables students to understand, interpret, and use accounting information to make financial decisions. A minor in accounting prepares students entering any career field to be educated business professionals and informed consumers.

  • The Human Rights minor consists of 6 courses. 

 

 Human Rights Minor - Course Catalog

 

 

Sample Courses

This course takes a global perspective defining human rights, reflecting on violations of these rights, considering arguments in support of human rights, and examining various new initiatives designed to protect human rights in different countries in all parts of the world. This course focuses on issues pertaining to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights such as slavery, personal security and equality before the law, freedom of marriage, freedom of assembly, and freedom of movement..

This course surveys the complicated history of human rights from its origins to the modern era. Emphasis is on the historical forces, movements, and events, especially in the last three centuries, that have moved this concept from the realm of intellectual theory and conjecture to practical implementation and application. This course may also touch on some of the major philosophical, ethical, and moral questions intertwined with human rights.