GWS 3365 - Structural Violence, Poverty and Human Rights

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENG 1009 or ENG 1010

Description: In this course, students apply a structural violence framework to make visible the power inequalities that result in producing and reproducing injustices and violations of socioeconomic rights. The use of ethnographic case studies allows students to explore a human rights-based approach to collective actions for justice. Through group discussion, analysis, and workshops, student learn to take political responsibility for injustices beyond those we individually witness or experience.

Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix.

Cross Listed Course(s): ANT 3365, PSC 3365