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GLOS 5403 - Human Rights Advocacy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 5403/Law 6058
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Theoretical basis of human rights movement. Organizations, strategies, tactics, programs. Advocacy: fact-finding, documentation, campaigns, trial observations. Forensic science. Human rights education, medical/psychological treatment. Research project or background for case study. prereq: Grad student

HIST 8245 - Human Rights: A Global History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course will focus on debates and social movements concerning human rights in the broadest sense, beginning with the seventeenth century and ending in the 1950s. Topics include colonization, slavery, torture, war crimes, rights to land, women's rights, sexual rights, and indigenous self-determination. The seminar will require a research or historiographical paper.

LAW 6886 - International Human Rights Law

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Role of lawyers using procedures of the United Nations, Organization of American States, State Department, Congress, U.S. Courts, and nongovernmental organizations to address international human rights problems. Is there a law of international human rights? How is that law made, changed, and invoked? Problem method used.

PA 5885 - Human Rights Policy: Issues and Actors

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Politics of human rights issue emergence; relevant international, regional, and domestic norms; correlates of state repression; measurement of human rights abuse and remedies; human rights promotion by states, political parties, international organizations, NGOs, social movements, faith-based organizations, and providers of international development assistance.

SOC 8171 - Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives in Human Rights

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This seminar will approach human rights issues from a variety of "disciplinary" perspectives, including history, the arts, law, the social sciences, and praxis. Empirical work in the social sciences will receive somewhat greater emphasis. One key focus will be the unique advantages (and disadvantages) of the different perspectives and fruitful ways to combine them to strengthen action that improves human rights situations in countries around the world, including the United States. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

AFRO 5866 - The Civil Rights and Black Power Movement, 1954-1984

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3866/Afro 5866/Hist 3856
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

The "second reconstruction." Failure of Reconstruction, abdication of black civil rights in 19th century. Post-1945 assault on white supremacy via courts/state, grass-roots southern movement in 1950s/1960s. Black struggle in north and west, emphasis on Black Power by new organizations/ideologies/leaders. Ascendancy of Reagan, conservative assault on movement.

AFRO 8202 - Seminar: Intellectual History of Race

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

At its heart, the 8202 seminar is about dialogue, interrogating scholarship on race, intellectual history, and knowledge production. We will be in deep conversation with one another as we negotiate meaning around the intellectual history of race. Dialogue, indeed, is at the heart of this graduate seminar experience. Given the multidisciplinary composition of the students and content in 8202, we build together to form a learning whole in a remote format. Central to our work is excavating the 500 year legacy of race thought and making into the contemporary period.

AFRO 8554 - Seminar: Gender, Race, Nation, and Policy--Perspectives from Within the African Diaspora

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Interdisciplinary analysis of U.S. domestic and foreign policies as they affect Africans and peoples of African descent in the diaspora. Intersections of gender, race, nation, and class. prereq: instr consent

AMIN 5890 - Readings in American Indian and Indigenous History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5890/Hist 5890
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Students in this course will read recently published scholarship in American Indian and Indigenous history that takes up pressing research questions, promises to push inquiry in new directions, and that theorizes important interventions in our thinking to understand where the field is situated and moving. Reflecting the instinctively interdisciplinary nature of American Indian and Indigenous history, readings will be drawn not just from the discipline of history but across other disciplines such as Anthropology, American Studies, Geography, Literature, Political Science, and Legal Studies. As well, readings will include scholarship that reaches out to embrace the Global Indigenous studies turn. prereq: Advanced undergrad with instr consent or grad student

ANTH 8810 - Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Seminar examines particular aspects of method and/or theory. Topics vary according to student and faculty interests.

BTHX 5100 - Introduction to Clinical Ethics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Healthcare is full of gray areas, high stakes situations, and tensions between personal and professional values. This course explores the moral nature of the healthcare professions and common values-based conflicts in clinical practice. By examining everyday cases, exploring current issues in healthcare, and developing habits of reflective practice, learners will have the opportunity to recognize and respond to moral uncertainties that arise in the interprofessional clinical environment. The course presents practical knowledge and skills needed for ethics deliberation and decision making. This is a blended instruction course where students can expect a majority of sessions held in-person and occasional online sessions.

BTHX 5220 - Standards for Research with Human Participants: A Lecture Series for Researchers

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

This series of lectures presents various legal and regulatory standards that apply to research using human participants. Some are of general interest (e.g., Informed Consent); others will interest more specialized researchers (e.g., International Research).

CHIC 5374 - Migrant Farmworkers in the United States: Families, Work, and Advocacy (CIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3374/Chic 5374
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Socioeconomic/political forces that impact migrant farmworkers. Effects of the laws and policies on everyday life. Theoretical assumptions/strategies of unions and advocacy groups. Role/power of consumer. How consuming cheap food occurs at expense of farmworkers.

CSPH 5111 - Ways of Thinking about Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course is your opportunity to examine, challenge and critically reflect upon your thinking about health. The class meets in a hybrid model that includes in-person, field-trip ?micro-immersion experience? to explore different understandings of health through visits to cultural communities. We include with field trips virtual experiential glimpses into fundamentally different systems of knowledge often conflicting with the scientific/professional models emphasized in many professional fields on campus. Frameworks for critical thinking, critical self-reflection, cultural self-study, intellectual virtues and supplemental readings are offered to support your effort to step into culturally different knowledge systems and mental models of health and well-being. These frames and approaches offer you a mirror through which your own perspective, thinking and background assumptions of health become more visible and explicit. I ask you to challenge your own thinking and better recognize the culture you carry in your thinking as you attempt to inhabit different cognitive worlds. You will also apply this examination to the professional fields of your interest, sharing your insights with learners in other professions. In this way, we bring together interdisciplinary and intercultural learning. On the dates that we meet virtually, our goal is to create a space that encourages us to share with sincerity our thoughts and emerging insights with one another in Zoom conversations. The synchronous Zoom sessions allow you to benefit from each other?s personal and professional take on the immersion experiences as you develop your philosophy, narrative and understanding of health. prereq: jr, sr, grad, or instr consent

EPSY 5135 - Human Relations Workshop

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Experiential course addressing issues of prejudice and discrimination in terms of history, power, and social perception. Includes knowledge and skills acquisition in cooperative learning, multicultural education, group dynamics, social influence, effective leadership, judgment and decision-making, prejudice reduction, conflict resolution.

ESPM 5251 - Natural Resources in Sustainable International Development

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ESPM 3251/ESPM 5251/LAS 3251
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

International perspectives on resource use in developing countries. Integration of natural resource issues with social, economic, and policy considerations. Agriculture, forestry, agroforestry, non-timber forest products, water resources, certification, development issues. Latin American case studies. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

GLOS 5403 - Human Rights Advocacy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 5403/Law 6058
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Theoretical basis of human rights movement. Organizations, strategies, tactics, programs. Advocacy: fact-finding, documentation, campaigns, trial observations. Forensic science. Human rights education, medical/psychological treatment. Research project or background for case study. prereq: Grad student

HRIR 5252 - Employment and Labor Law for the HRIR Professional

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Application of statutes/case law to work settings. Civil rights/equal opportunity. Discrimination/harassment. Compensation/benefits. Employee protection/privacy. Labor relations. Emphasizes application/ability to recognize legal aspects of HRIR issues. prereq: HRIR MA student must register A-F, 3021, [CSOM or HRD junior or senior or dept consent]

KIN 5371 - Sport and Society

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Kin 5371/Rec 5371
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Sport, sporting processes, social influences, systems. Structures that have effected and exist within/among societies, nations, and cultures. Contemporary issues such as social differentiation, violence, and honesty. prereq: [3126W, grad student] or instr consent

LAW 6030 - Contemporary Problems in Freedom of Speech and Press

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Jour 5777/Law 6030
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Most of us use devices like Smartphones, GPS, streaming services, or hands-free speakers like Amazon's Echo that connect to online voice services like Alexa without thinking about them very much. But, what kind of information are they collecting? Are merchants allowed to gather your shopping history and use it to send you targeted advertising, or to sell it to other companies for profit? Should other people be able to post your personal information or photos online without your consent? Can the government read your emails, track your online browsing, or intercept your text messages? This course considers how growing concerns about privacy and national security affect the First Amendment and the rights of journalists to gather and report the news. We will read significant court decisions and take a look at current statutory and regulatory initiatives both in the United States and abroad. You can expect lively debates and discussion, and the opportunity to explore a privacy or national security issue in depth in a substantial research paper.

LAW 6046 - Human Trafficking

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Seminar will examine the breadth and depth of efforts to combat and raise awareness about human trafficking, a form of modern-day slavery in which people are compelled through force, fraud, coercion, or other means to engage in commercial sexual exploitation or forced labor.

LAW 6058 - Human Rights Advocacy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 5900/Law 6058
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course will study the histories, philosophies and activities of human rights activists and organizations. The course examines the theoretical basis of the human rights movement, the principles underlying key organizations in the human rights field, as well as their strategies, tactics, and programs. The class will use case studies and other active methods to understand and to evaluate the work of human rights activists. Topics to be considered include fact-finding and documentation, campaigns on human rights issues, cultural relativism, economic rights, and corporate responsibility for human rights. Students will consider the basic organizational structure and fundraising needs of NGOs. Students will design and present a research project based on their selection of in-class topics. Readings include material on the history of NGOs; roots and development of the human rights movement; analysis of key NGOs; advocacy within international institutions; and reports and publications from NGOs working in the field.

LAW 6621 - Rights in Conflict: Citizenship and Human Rights

Credits:	2.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course explores an emerging, interdisciplinary field of inquiry that focuses on the relationships between Civil Rights Law in the United States and International Human Rights Law in the global context. Although the two areas represent distinct bodies of law, they also share many important features, objectives, and impediments. By examining the historical emergence of (1) Civil Rights Law in the United States, and (2) International Human Rights Law in the global context, students will gain a better understanding of the critical relationships and intersections between these two important areas of public law. Through an examination of the seminal cases and controversies in these areas, this course will explore the differences between various categories of rights; America�s �exceptionalism� why the United States pursues a strong human rights agenda abroad that is rarely applied in the domestic context; the gains (and losses) that the domestic civil rights movement has experienced in recent decades, among other topics.

LAW 6827 - Women's International Human Rights

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This seminar addresses the history and legal context of women�s human rights; the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and its impact; gender and human rights in the international system; specific topics such as property and other economic rights, reproductive rights, and violence against women; and the role of nongovernmental organizations in making CEDAW work for women.

LAW 6889 - Laws of War

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course focuses on two interrelated bodies of law: rules pertaining to the use of force in international law (known as the jus ad bellum) and rules regulating the conduct of hostilities under the laws of international and non-international armed conflict (known as international humanitarian law, the laws of armed conflict, or the jus in bello). The course will cover such issues as the �Just War� theory, its history and its relevance in the modern world; the general prohibition on the use of force under Article 2(4) of the UN Charter; use of force by the UN: collective security and law enforcement actions; individual and collective self-defense; humanitarian intervention; and nuclear weapons in international law. The course will also consider regulation of the means and methods of warfare focusing on the Geneva and Hague laws: the four Geneva conventions protecting the wounded, sick, and shipwrecked, prisoners of war, and civilians; the means and methods of war, including lawful and unlawful weapons and targets; the law of internal armed conflicts; and asymmetric warfare.

LAW 7400 - CL: Human Rights Litigation and Advocacy

Credits:	3.0 -4.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This clinic provides students with experience in human rights advocacy which may include litigation in federal or state courts and advocacy before the United Nations, the federal and state legislative and executive branches, and working in coalitions of nongovernmental organizations. The clinic provides participation in clinical projects and skill-building exercises. The process will facilitate discussion of the pros and cons of various advocacy mechanisms, possible conflicting strategies among stakeholders, and how particular strategies are chosen and implemented. The clinic's class component includes core lawyering skills such as interviewing, counseling, negotiation, and legal ethics in practice, and subjects such as how to practice before international human rights systems, how to use international law sources in legal arguments before U.S. courts, working with clients with Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, the different types of oral advocacy and writing in human rights advocacy, and the use of education, outreach, and the media in advancing a strategy.

LAW 7842 - CL: Immigration and Human Rights

Credits:	3.0 -4.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

The Immigration and Human Rights Clinic represents persons seeking asylum in the United States, human trafficking victims and immigrant detainees. This clinic, which is part of the James H. Binger Center for New Americans, provides students with extensive client contact, legal writing, and courtroom advocacy experience. Students receive frequent and detailed feedback on all of their clinic work. For their representation of clients in asylum cases, students interview and counsel their clients on a regular basis, research conditions in the countries where their clients suffered persecution, write briefs and represent their clients in hearings at U.S. Immigration Court. Depending on the resolution of their case at the trial level, students will write appellate briefs to the Board of Immigration Appeals and the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. For their representation of human trafficking victims, students interview their clients, research the relevant law, interact with government officials who have investigated the trafficking scheme, and prepare applications for visas that permit their clients to remain in the United States. Students also represent immigrant detainees at hearings in Immigration Court to determine if they have defenses to deportation. Students also work on public policy and community outreach projects which bring them into contact with immigrant rights groups at the state and national level. As a result of their work in the clinic, students learn about U.S. immigration law and policy and participate in the Binger Center's innovative strategies for improving the lives of immigrants through strategic litigation, well informed public policy, and community outreach and education. LAW 6872 Immigration Law strongly recommended.

OLPD 5104 - Education and the Sustainable Development Goals

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

This course provides a critical analysis of strategies used to improve educational outcomes worldwide. This course examines contemporary trends in educational policy, development, and practice, focusing on how?s and why?s of educational change. Empirical studies, organizational reports, and student experiences all inform class discussion. prereq: Grad student

PA 5151 - Organizational Perspectives on Global Development & Humanitarian Assistance

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Organizational analysis of international development and humanitarian assistance, including perspectives from sociology, political science, psychology, public administration, and management. Examines efforts of multiple organizational players, including NGOs, governments, bi-lateral and multi-lateral organizations, corporations, foundations, and international organizations. Critical analysis of aid organizations, especially regarding ways in which they reflect and create power and privilege, the manner in which individuals� needs and desires interact with, support, or challenge the needs of the organization, and how all of this is influenced by forces outside the boundary of the organization. Students practice developing actionable recommendations to improve the effectiveness of international aid organizations in the context of multiple (and often contested) understandings of global development needs and conflicting stakeholder demands. Readings, class discussions, mini-lectures, simulations, case analyses, group projects, oral presentations, memo writing, opinion writing.

PA 5401 - Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Nature/extent of poverty/inequality in the United States, causes/consequences, impact of government programs/policies. Extent/causes of poverty/inequality in other developed/developing countries. prereq: Grad or instr consent

PA 5421 - Racial Inequality and Public Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Historical roots of racial inequality in American society. Contemporary economic consequences. Public policy responses to racial inequality. Emphasizes thinking/analysis that is critical of strategies offered for reducing racism and racial economic inequality. prereq: Grad or instr consent

PA 5490 - Topics in Social Policy

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Selected topics.

PA 5601 - Global Survey of Gender and Public Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Introduction to the key concepts and tools necessary for gender policy analysis. Survey of the major findings in the field of gender and public policy in policy areas such as poverty alleviation, health, international security, environment and work-family reconciliation. Scope includes local, national, and global policy arenas as well as exploration of gender and the politics of policy formulation.

PA 5690 - Topics in Women, Gender and Public Policy

Credits:	0.5 -3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Selected topics. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

PA 5801 - Global Public Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course explores the emergence and evolution of rules, norms, and institutions that constitute international relations. It will focus, in particular, on those related to questions of war, peace, and governance. For students with an interest in international security, foreign military intervention, democracy and governance promotion, and the political economy of aid.

PA 5823 - Human Rights and Humanitarian Crises: Policy Challenges

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Examines response of governments, international organizations, NGOs, and others to global humanitarian and human rights challenges posed by civil conflict and other complex emergencies in places such as Syria, Ukraine, South Sudan, Somalia, Burma, and elsewhere. Course will also consider and assess UN and other institutions established to address these issues (like UNOCHA and UNHCR). In addition, course will examine US policy toward humanitarian issues and refugees (including US refugee admissions).

PA 5885 - Human Rights Policy: Issues and Actors

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Politics of human rights issue emergence; relevant international, regional, and domestic norms; correlates of state repression; measurement of human rights abuse and remedies; human rights promotion by states, political parties, international organizations, NGOs, social movements, faith-based organizations, and providers of international development assistance.

PA 5890 - Topics in Foreign Policy and International Affairs

Credits:	0.5 -5.0 [max 15.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Selected topics.

POL 8260 - Topics in Political Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Readings and research in special topics or problems.

POL 8403 - International Norms and Institutions

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Origins, roles, and effectiveness of international norms and institutions; theoretical explanations and debates. Institution of sovereignty; rational choice versus constructivist perspectives; role of international law, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations; and international society and transnational cultural norms. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8460 - Topics in International Relations

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Readings and research in advanced topics or problems. Recent topics: global environmental issues, morality in world politics, and norms and institutions in world politics.

PSY 8210 - Law, Race, and Social Psychology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Law 6831/Psy 8210
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Interdisciplinary seminar. Scientific foundations for and legal implications of implicit (vs explicit) racial or gender bias in four socio-legal domains: criminal law, affirmative action, employment discrimination, and legislative redistricting. prereq: 2nd or 3rd yr law student or PhD student in social science doctoral program

PUBH 6055 - Social Inequalities in Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Extent and causes of social inequalities in health. Degree to which understanding of these inequalities is hampered by methodological limitations in health research. Focuses on individual, community, and policy approaches to reducing social inequalities in health.

PUBH 6066 - Building Communities, Increasing Health: Preparing for Community Health Work

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Taught with Powderhorn-Phillips Cultural Wellness Center. Introduction to community building/organizing. Using culture as a resource for health, reducing barriers, identifying community assets, planning organizing strategy, understanding the impact of history. Emphasizes self-reflection and skill-building for authentic, grassroots community work.

PUBH 6115 - Worker Protection Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Role of government in protecting rights of citizens. Labor movement history as starting point for discussion of systems for protecting workers in unsafe workplaces and compensating them for injuries. Laws against class-based discrimination.

PUBH 6131 - Working in Global Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to key issues in global health. Global burden of disease. Cultural issues/health. Nutrition. Infectious diseases. Environmental problems. Women/children. Prereq Grad student.

SOC 8190 - Topics in Law, Crime, and Deviance

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Advanced topics in law, crime, and deviance. Social underpinnings of legal/illegal behavior and of legal systems.

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