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Degree programme: | Master Sustainable Energy Systems |
Type of degree: | FH Master´s Degree Programme |
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Summer Semester 2022 |
Course unit title | Human Rights and Professional Ethos |
Course unit code | 800101010700 |
Language of instruction | German / English |
Type of course unit (compulsory, optional) | Elective |
Semester when the course unit is delivered | Summer Semester 2022 |
Teaching hours per week | 2 |
Year of study | 2022 |
Number of ECTS credits allocated | Second Cycle (Master) |
Number of ECTS credits allocated | 3 |
Name of lecturer(s) | Sharon DU PLESSIS-SCHNEIDER, Hans WALZ |
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Course content |
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Performance assessment (group project during course time) |
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Field trip to a sustainably managed business: Students explore how human rights are realised and how sustainable business practices promote cooperation and participation of different social groups.
Cost per person: 10 €
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Recommended or required reading |
Galtung, J. (1994). Human Rights in Another Key, 1 edition, Cambridge: Polity Press. Gil. D. G. (2012). Confronting social injustice and oppression: Concepts and strategies for social workers. NY: Columbia University Press. Gandhi, M. (1993). The Penguin Gandhi reader. New York: Penguin Press. Ignatieff, M. (2002). Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry, Princeton University Press. Margalit, A. (1996) The Decent Society. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Schneider, S. (2013) Transcultural School Social Work, In: Abdi-Koegeler Martina and Parmcutt, Richard (2013) Interculturality, Practice meets Research, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle, pp. 50-69. Shewell, H. (2010). Social Rights are Human Rights: Furthering the Democratic Project, In Jane Pulkingham, Human welfare, rights and social activism, University of Toronto Press: 114- 135. Staub-Bernasconi, S. (2007). Economic and Social Rights: The Neglected Human Rights. In: Reichert, Elisabeth. (Ed.), Challenge in Human Rights, New York: Columbia University Press, 138-161. Warks, J. (2013). The Human Rights Manifesto, Winchester & Washington: Zero Books. Wronka, J. (2008). Human rights and social justice: Social action and service for the helping and health professions. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. |
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