CY5801 - Human Rights and Social Exclusion

Credit points:	03
Year:	2011
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Arts & Social Sciences

The subject examines the relationship between human rights and social exclusion.

Learning Outcomes

• to enable students to demonstrate a critical analysis of the relationship between the denial of human rights and social exclusion;
• to develop students' knowledge of, as well as their capacity to identity, the human rights entitlements of excluded populations at international and national levels;
• to enable students to demonstrate an understanding of the political legal and other means for securing human rights to enhance social inclusion as well as the obstacles to the realisation of human rights entitlements.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• An understanding of the economic, legal, ethical, social and cultural issues involved in the use of information;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion;
• The ability to work individually and independently;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Availabilities
Townsville, Block, Study Period 8
Census Date 18-Aug-2011
Face to face teaching (subject has face to face teaching from 9.00am-1.00pm for two consecutive weeks. Dates to be determined.)
Coordinator:	Professor Paul Havemann
Contact hours:	40 hours lectures
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); essays (50%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.