WS1005:03
Human Rights and Social Issues
| Townsville, Cairns, Mackay, External | HECS Band 1 |
13 hours lectures, 24 tutorials. Semester 2.
Staff: Ms D Miles (Townsville and Mackay campus); Ms L Sadiki (Cairns campus).
This subject will introduce students to concepts of social justice, human rights and legal frameworks through a critical analysis of selected issues. Students will be provided with social justice, human rights and legal frameworks for understanding the lives of people who experience disadvantage.
Learning Objectives:
- develop an understanding of the relationship between notions of social justice, human rights, the principles underlying a socially-just society, social policy and the law;
- be familiar with the human rights, social justice and social policy issues for a range of individuals and groups including Indigenous people, people with mental health issues, people with a disability, migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, the elderly, children, women, juvenile offenders, employees, people who are unemployed, tenants, people who are homeless, prisoners and others;
- be able to identify and critically debate some of the major social justice and human rights issues and dilemmas involved in a range of social policies;
- be aware of some of the many implications of human rights, social justice and social policy issues for social welfare practitioners.
Assessment by written assessment (50%); oral presentations/class activities and defence (50%).