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  • HRTS 3080: Advanced Topics in Human Rights

    3.00 Credits
    Webster University

    Upper level study of influential text(s) or topic(s) in a special area of International Human Rights.
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  • HRTS 3160: Human Rights in Film:Documentaries

    3.00 Credits
    Webster University

    We'll look at and talk about films and videos that explore serious human rights concerns. In doing so, along with reading and writing about the films--and the situations or problems depicted in them--we should learn a fair bit about these specific films, documentary films in general, the situations depicted, human rights, and the human condition. Each film will be discussed in terms of the human rights issues raised; relevant international human rights standards; appropriate historical, philosophical, and political background; and the methods used by the filmmakers to get their messages across. Cross-listed with FILM 3160 and PHIL 3110. May be repeated for credit if content differs.
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  • HRTS 3170: Human Rights in Film:Narrative Films

    3.00 Credits
    Webster University

    We'll look at and talk about narrative films and videos that explore serious human rights concerns. In doing so, along with reading and writing about the films--and the situations or problems depicted in them--we should learn a fair bit about these specific films, narrative films in general, the situations depicted, human rights, and the human condition. Each film will be discussed in terms of the human rights issues raised; relevant international human rights standards; appropriate historical, philosophical, and political background; and the methods used by the filmmakers to get their message across. Crosslisted with FILM 3160 and PHIL 3110. May be repeated for credit if content differs.
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  • HRTS 3200: Human Rights Area Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Webster University

    Examines the conditions in selected countries during a specific time period. (An example might be the conditions in Argentina , Chile , and Uruguay in the 1960s and 1970s that led to the human rights abuses of the 1970s and 1980s.) Investigates the impact of human rights abuses on the politics and society in the countries selected. The approach may vary from semester to semester, ranging from the historical to the literary. May be repeated once for credit, when subject matter varies.
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  • HRTS 3210: Prejudice and Discrimination

    3.00 Credits
    Webster University

    Focus of the course will be on the essential features of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. Examines inter-group relations as they pertain to such socially defined boundaries as race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, ethnicity, ability, appearance, and socioeconomic status. We will look at how standards regarding international human rights discrimination and violations are handled by the international community. Addresses impact on life in the U.S. and elsewhere, and what measures, if any, can be taken to reduce stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. Cross-listed with ANSO 3650 and PSYC 3650.
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  • HRTS 3400: Human Rights and the Environment

    3.00 Credits
    Webster University

    A clean environment, safe from human-created hazards, has increasingly been argued to be a human right. This course examines the arguments and the status of environmental rights under the present international framework.
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  • HRTS 3500: International Human Rights Law

    3.00 Credits
    Webster University

    Briefly introduces the idea of international law and examines the development of international human rights law from its origins through successive generations of thinking and institutionalization to the present. Examines conventions, monitoring, conformity and violation, attempts at enforcement, and current controversies.
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  • HRTS 3590: Theories of Human Rights

    3.00 Credits
    Webster University

    Examines the historical development of theories of human rights and their relation to civil liberties, international law, social organization, and different conceptions of community, individualism, and the state. Also examines the most significant human rights documents in their historical context. May focus on specific cases and questions of current concern. Prerequisite: POLT 1070 or PHIL 2300. Cross-listed with PHIL 3590 and POLT 3590.
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  • HRTS 3600: Genocide and the Holocaust

    3.00 Credits
    Webster University

    Examines the nature of evil and its impact on victims and perpetrators; differences between genocide, democide, ethnocide, and other forms of mass violence; the interaction of psychological, sociological, cultural, and/or political roots of evil, human cruelty, mass violence, and genocide; Staub's theory of evil and the application of this theory to the perpetration of genocide and mass violence in Nazi Germany, Turkey, Cambodia, and Argentina; the nature of bystander behavior and the impact of bystander behavior on the perpetration of genocide; the interrelationship between genocide and war; and the question of what can be done to prevent human cruelty, mass violence, and genocide. Cross-listed with ANSO 3000 and PSYC 3000 when appropriate.
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  • HRTS 3700: Human Rights and Business

    3.00 Credits
    Webster University

    Human rights standards are often incorporated into the civil law of nations, but not always--and often incompletely. Business practice is generally required to conform to national law, but businesses operating internationally are also under pressure to conform to international human rights standards. The course examines conformity of national and international business with relevant human rights standards and the pressures leading toward greater conformity or increased violation.
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