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Spring/ Summer 2024 Human Rights Courses

Fri. Mar. 1, 2024

HR-2650-001: Human Rights in Literature, Film and Art (3 credits)

T, Th 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (05-06-2024 - 06-17-2024)

U of W Campus, Manitoba Hall, 2M74

Instructor: Dr. Shayna Plaut


HR-3650-001: Approaching Mediation and Restorative Justice from a Human Rights Perspective (3 credits)

T, Th 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (05-06-2024 - 06-17-2024)

U of W Campus, Manitoba Hall, 2M74

Instructor: Dr. Natella Roskoshna


HR-4650-050: Decolonizing the Right to Education (3 credits)

T, Th 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (05-06-2024 - 06-17-2024)

U of W Campus, Lockhart Hall 1L04

Instructor: Samara Hand


HR-2600-001: Emerging Issues in HR (6 credits)

M/T/W/Th/F 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (08-12-2024 - 08-26-2024)

U of W CampusManitoba Hall, 1M28

Instructor: Dr. Lloyd Kornelsen

This intensive course is designed to introduce students, in a range of disciplines and students entering university, to challenges and opportunities in global to local human rights, by cultivating foundational skills for academic success. In both classroom and community settings, students explore global issues using the city as our human rights 'campus' through current news items, literature, and social analysis from diverse perspectives, shaped by research expertise in Global College. The course is structured to strengthen skills in critical thinking and analysis, writing, oral/social media presentations within a human rights framework, for increasing student capabilities in a range of post-secondary academic programs.

Instructor permission required. 

If you are interested in taking the course, you will need to send in a written 3-paragraph (about 200- 250 word) response to the question: Why do you want to take this course? This can be sent to global.college@uwinnipeg.ca and must be submitted and approved by the course instructor before you can register for the course using WebAdvisor. There are a limited number of seats remaining in the course.