Human Rights (HUMR)
Human Rights Program Committee
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
HUMR 1001 [1.0 credit]
Introduction to Human Rights
Human rights from an interdisciplinary perspective. Topics may include the foundations and nature of rights, roots of inequality and oppression, aboriginal rights, racism, women and rights, sexual orientation, state and corporate power, economic exploitation, the environment and rights, warfare, torture, and social movements.
Precludes additional credit for
FYSM 1104 and
ISSC 1001/ANTH 1010/SOCI 1010 (no longer offered).
Lecture and discussion groups three hours a week.