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SP32066: Atrocities, conflict, human rights

[Page last updated: 23 May 2025]

Academic Year: 2025/26
Owning Department/School: Department of Social & Policy Sciences
Credits: 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 100
Level: Honours (FHEQ level 6)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: EXCB 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Closed-book written examination (EXCB 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: At the end of this unit, students will be able to:
* Assess competing accounts and critiques of human rights.
* Critically evaluate key human rights instruments, policy texts and reports.
* Apply theoretical explanations of human rights violations to a range of case studies.
* Critically evaluate different approaches for redressing and reckoning with human rights abuses.


Synopsis: "Explore human rights as a field of advocacy, practice, and scholarship. You will develop an understanding of human rights as a criminological concern in the context of some of the most serious crimes under international law. You will explore and appraise different responses to human rights violations, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and historical injustice, through debates in transitional justice, historical injustice and International Criminal Law."

Content: This unit aims to introduce students to human rights as a field of advocacy, practice, and scholarship. The unit will present competing disciplinary accounts and critiques of human rights practice and theory, while centring human rights as a site of criminological concern at a 'global level' through their relationship to grave crimes under international law. The unit aims to examine explanations of serious human rights violations and conflict, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and historical injustice, via a range of case studies. The unit then aims to introduce students to opportunities and challenges for redressing serious human rights abuses, particularly in relation to key debates in transitional justice, historical injustice and International Criminal Law.

Course availability:

SP32066 is Optional on the following courses:

Department of Education
  • UHED-AFB20 : BA(Hons) Education with Psychology (Year 3)
  • UHED-AKB12 : BA(Hons) Education with Psychology with Professional Placement (Year 4)
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
  • UHSP-AFB30 : BSc(Hons) Criminology (Year 3)
  • UHSP-AKB22 : BSc(Hons) Criminology with Year long work placement (Year 4)
  • UHSP-AFB31 : BSc(Hons) International Development with Economics (Year 3)
  • UHSP-AKB21 : BSc(Hons) International Development with Economics with Year long work placement (Year 4)
  • UHSP-AFB32 : BSc(Hons) Social Policy (Year 3)
  • UHSP-AKB16 : BSc(Hons) Social Policy with Year long work placement (Year 4)
  • UHSP-AFB37 : BSc(Hons) Social Sciences (Year 3)
  • UHSP-AKB05 : BSc(Hons) Social Sciences with Year long work placement (Year 4)
  • UHSP-AFB35 : BSc(Hons) Sociology (Year 3)
  • UHSP-AKB04 : BSc(Hons) Sociology with Year long work placement (Year 4)
  • UHSP-AFB36 : BSc(Hons) Sociology and Social Policy (Year 3)
  • UHSP-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Sociology and Social Policy with Year long work placement (Year 4)

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