Human Rights in World Civilizations I

Course Code

SOSC 24900 97

Cross Listed Course Code(s)

HMRT 10100

Course Description

This is part one of a sequence exploring how human rights have been constructed across transnational, imperial, national, and local spaces in a variety of idioms while exposing students to their contested genealogies and limits.

We explore the history, philosophy, and rhetoric of human rights through a variety of disciplinary lenses.

The sequence is primary source driven and discussion based, with readings drawn from a range of texts from political philosophy and legal texts, to novels and films.

Course Criteria

Instructor(s)

Johanna Ransmeier

¹ UChicago students can self-register.

² Visiting students and pre-college students apply through the same application.