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POL 185D - The Idea of Human Rights


3 credit(s) High Impact Practice: Diversity
This course approaches human rights from the standpoints of political science, philosophy, literature, and history. The course traces the development of the concept of human rights as a major contribution to global thought and culture, in order to assess the prospects for human rights in the twenty-first century.


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