Listed in: Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, as LJST-374 | Political Science, as POSC-374
Formerly listed as: LJST-39 | POSC-74
Kristin Bumiller (Section 01)
(Offered as POSC 374 and LJST 374) This seminar explores the role of rights in addressing inequality, discrimination, and violence. This course will trace the evolution of rights focused legal strategies aimed at addressing injustice coupled with race, gender, disability, and citizenship status. We will evaluate how rights-based activism often creates a gap between expectation and realization. This evaluation will consider when and how rights are most efficacious in producing social change and the possibility of unintended consequences.
This course fulfills a requirement for the Five College Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice (RHRJ) certificate.
Requisite: One introductory POSC course or its equivalent. Limited to 15 students. Spring semester. Professor Bumiller.
Section 01
Tu 02:00 PM - 04:30 PM SCCE A013