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BA Law and Human Rights


First year Foundations of Human Rights


Constitutional Law Criminal Law Contract Law


Second year


Issues and Methods in Human Rights Administrative Law Public International Law Either Current Issues in Constitutional and Human Rights Law or European Human Rights Law


Third year


Human Rights Colloquium Jurisprudence


Law of the European Union Either Current Issues in Constitutional and Human Rights Law or European Human Rights Law


BA Politics with Human Rights


First year Foundations of Human Rights


Introduction to Politics


Introduction to International Relations (recommended)


One option (The Enlightenment is recommended)


Second year


Issues and Methods in Human Rights Introduction to Political Theory


Political Analysis One politics option


Third year


Human Rights Colloquium Three politics options


BA Philosophy with Human Rights


First year


Introduction to Philosophy Foundations of Human Rights


Death, God and the Meaning of Life


One philosophy option Second year


Philosophy and Rights I Issues and Methods in Human Rights


Two philosophy options


BA Sociology with Human Rights


First year Foundations of Human Rights


Sociology and the Modern World


Researching Social Life I One sociology option


Second year


Issues and Methods in Human Rights


Continuity and Controversy in Sociology


Two sociology or human rights options


Third year


Human Rights Colloquium Current Disputes in Sociology


Sociology of Human Rights Project: Sociology One sociology or human rights option


Third year


Human Rights Colloquium Either Ethics or Contemporary Political Philosophy


Two philosophy options


BA Latin American Studies with Human Rights


First year Foundations of Human Rights


Introduction to Contemporary Latin America


Introduction to Latin American History Spanish or Portuguese language option


Second year Spanish or Portuguese language option Issues and Methods in Human Rights


Doing Inter-disc Research One Latin American option One Latin American half-option


Third year Year abroad


Fourth year Spanish or Portuguese language option


Human Rights Colloquium One Latin American option Project


This information is a guide to course content and is subject to review on an annual basis.


The Department of Philosophy, ranked joint first in the UK in the 2010 National Student Survey, examines the moral and historical foundations for human rights, the contradictions that may exist between and among different types of rights, and how the human rights project can promote more just and equal societies.


The Department of Sociology, ranked first in the UK in the most recent RAE (2008), explores how culture, class, ethnicity, gender and citizenship shape social understandings of human rights and


structure access to the resources needed for the realisation of human rights and the achievement of social justice.


The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities offers a wide range of modules, which enables you to receive multidisciplinary grounding in Latin American studies. This, in turn, contributes to a regionally focused study of human rights, offering you the opportunity to examine human rights questions in a detailed social, cultural and political context.


How are the courses


structured? Within each course, the three core modules in human rights are compulsory, while you are free to choose among the core and optional modules from the school, department or centre of your chosen discipline. The core modules in human rights comprise 25 per cent of the course. If you are taking BA/LLB Law and Human Rights, you will have an additional 25 per cent of human rights content awarded to your degree.


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