AP/HREQ 4652 6.00
Violence, Enslavement, and Human Rights
This course uses a critical human rights approach to examine how violence is normalized through cultural ideologies and practices, and how human enslavement represents violence and violation. The course relies on a critical interdisciplinary analysis to formulate understandings of the complexities of violence and modern slavery.
The course presents a critical interdisciplinary overview, (as opposed to biological explanations of human conduct), to formulate a broad understanding of the complexities of violence and contemporary slavery. Topics covered include critical theories of violence, human nature and aggression, the cultural underpinnings of violence, agonism, conflict and competition, violence and gender, the violence of warfare, militainment and the spectacle of violence, understanding enslavement as a form of violence, modern slavery, and human trafficking.
Course credit exclusion: AP/HREQ 4652 3.00
Prerequisites: 78 credits or permission from the undergraduate program director.