PHIL 238 Philosophy of Human Rights (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
Introduces students to the major issues concerning human rights. Are there human rights? Are human rights universal or are they culturally determined? Do future people have rights? Are minority rights exceptions to or different from human rights?
Course Content
A. Natural human rights and legal human rights
B. Perspectives on human rights, such as classical, post-colonial, non-Western, or others
C. Universal human rights and relativism
D. Rights of special groups, such as women’s rights, indigenous rights, rights of people of all sexual orientations and gender identities, and others
E. Global concerns about human rights
Student Outcomes
1. Compare natural human rights to legal human rights, evaluating the arguments for both.
2. Compare and contrast a variety of theories of human rights, in order to apply them to contemporary debates.
3. Evaluate and construct arguments for and against the possibility of universal human rights.
4. Evaluate and construct arguments concerning the rights of special groups, for example: women’s rights, indigenous rights, the rights of people with all sexual orientations and gender identities, and others.
5. Explore the connection between universal human rights and global justice, in order to recognize our responsibilities to ourselves and others, either locally or globally.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, and create and perform as an expression of human experience.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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