College Bulletin 2016-2017 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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HIST 001B. First Year Seminar: Human Rights as History: From Haiti to Nuremberg
This course takes the subject of human rights and sets it into historical motion. We will start with the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century and end with the Nuremberg trials and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Topics to be explored also include women’s rights in the Ottoman Empire, anti-colonial movements in India, and the question of the relationship between human rights and capitalism.
Social sciences.
Writing course.
1 credit.
Eligible for PEAC
Spring 2017. Azfar.
Catalog chapter: History
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history
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