HI 5000 - Social Studies Senior Seminar

Institution:

SUNY College at Old Westbury

Subject:

History and Philosophy

Description:

Required from Spring 2008 for all Social Studies majors. This new capstone course for Social Studies majors replaces the earlier AS5000 course. The new capstone course, HI5000, will focus on human rights in modern world history. This subject is important in its own right and is a topic emphasized in New York's high school curriculum and on subject certification tests. Majors will do basic readings to understand the struggle for fundamental human rights in the modern world and the particular efforts of nations, individuals, and international organizations to establish and protect those rights. Majors will identify and complete a major senior research paper on human rights during the course of this semester and will also design and complete several lesson plans relating to their own research efforts. Research topics that majors might undertake in this seminar include topics exploring/comparing the historical contexts of basic statements of human rights (such as those found in the American Declaration of Independence, the Japanese constitution, and/or the United Nations Declaration of Universal Human Rights); topics studying aspects of the concept of genocide as seen in the Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust; and studies of the lives of individuals who have fought for and advanced the cause of universal human rights (including among others Frederick Douglass, Mohandas Gandhi, Margaret Sanger, Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chavez, Elie Wiesel, and Nelson Mandela).

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.oldwestbury.edu

Phone Number:

(516) 876-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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