SOCIOL 98JB: Junior Tutorial: Human Rights

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2022

Professir: Isabel Jijon

T - 9:45 am - 11:45 am

This tutorial introduces students to qualitative research methods and how they can help us understand the successes, failures, promises, and limitations of human rights. Students will take a close look at “human rights in action,” or the way ordinary people interpret, demand, mobilize around, or resist human rights. We will discuss cases like women’s rights organizations in India, campaigns against female genital cutting in Egypt, truth and reconciliation commissions in Chile and Argentina, and indigenous rights movements in Peru. During the semester, students will also conduct their own research project on some aspect of human rights. Students will receive individualized support during this process and as they prepare their final paper.