Human Rights Spring 2025 Courses
Tue. Feb. 4, 2025
The Spring 2025 timetable is now available to view on WebAdvisor. If you have any questions about the scheduled courses, please contact the Global College Office Coordinator at global.college@uwinnipeg.ca.
Last updated April 2, 2025
Global College's Human Rights Program will be offering the following courses in the Spring 2025 term:
HR-2200/HIST-2512-001 History of Human Rights in Canada (3 credits)
M/W/F 9:00 am- 12:00 pm, 05/05/2025- 06/02/2025
Instructor: Kristi Kenyon
This course examines the history of human rights within the Canadian context including key federal, provincial and municipal legislation as well as critical human rights institutions. The course explores the evolution of the human rights in Canada in relation to their international counterparts, and historical discrimination in Canada in areas such as immigration, employment and housing, internment of minority populations, gender, sexuality, anti-Semitism and treatment of Indigenous peoples. Cross-listed: HIST-2512(3). Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and HIST-2512.
Requisites: None
HR-2600-001 Emerging Issues in Human Rights (6 credits)
M/T/W/Th/F 9:00 am- 4:00 pm, 08/18/2025- 08/29/2025
Instructor: Saad Khan
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.
Requisites: None
*Instructor permission is required. Please email the course instructor for more information.
HR-2650-001 Special Topics in Human Rights (3 credits)
Topic: Human Rights in Literature, Film and Art
T/Th 9:00 am- 12:00 pm, 05/05/2025-06/16/2025
Instructor: Steve Dueck
The nature and range of topics will vary, depending upon the expertise of the instructor. Students should consult the Human Rights advisor or Global College website for information about specific iterations of the course. The course may be repeated if the topic varies.
Course Description: How do literature, film, and visual art shape our understanding of human rights? This course explores the power of artistic expression to document injustice, challenge oppression, and inspire change. Through novels, films, artwork, and visual media, students will analyze how storytelling influences public perception, policy, and activism.
From exposing human rights violations to shaping global and local discourse, artistic works serve as both tools for resistance and subjects of controversy. Students will critically examine not only how art fosters empathy and awareness but also how human rights narratives are commodified—manipulated by corporations as marketing strategies.
The course also brings human rights home, integrating local perspectives from Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Canada. Whether you are passionate about social justice, media, or the arts, this course will challenge you to think critically about the role of creative expression in shaping the world around us.
HR-3510-001/002 Practicum in Human Rights (3 to 6 credits)
05/05/2025-09/01/2025
Instructor: Ruth Taronno
In the Practicum, students integrate theory and classroom knowledge with practice through supervised field work and structured assignments and reflections. The practicum involves volunteer work related to Human Rights in a relevant organization, and participation in specified seminars and/or written analyses. Note: Enrolment is subject to approval of a practicum proposal submitted by a student with a declared major in Human Rights. Interested students are advised to consult the Human Rights Coordinator well in advance of the term in which they wish to enroll.
Requisites: HR-2100 and HR-2200 or the former HRGS-2101 or the former POL-2101
HR-3511-001 International Practicum in Human Rights (6 credits)
05/05/2025-09/01/2025
Instructor: Ruth Taronno
In the International Practicum students integrate theory and classroom knowledge with practice through supervised field work and structured assignments and reflections. The practicum involves 3 months of a minimum of 30 weekly hours of volunteer work related to Human Rights in a relevant organization in an international setting, and participation in specified seminars and/or written analyses. Interested students are advised to consult with the Human Rights Practicum Coordinator well in advance of the term in which they wish to enroll. Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and HR-3510.
Requisites: HR-2100 and HR-2200
HR-3650-001 Special Topics in Human Rights (3 credits)
Topic: Representing 2SLGBTQ+ Rights
T/Th 6:00 pm- 9:00 pm, 05/05/2025-06/16/2025
Instructor: Scott de Groot
The nature and range of topics vary, depending upon the expertise of the instructor. Students should consult the Human Rights coordinator or Global College website for information about specific iterations of the course. The course may be repeated if topic varies. Restriction: Students cannot receive credit for GHR-3650 if already received credit in HR-3650.
Course Description: This course introduces sexuality as a domain of historical inquiry, surveys the history of queer oppression and resistance in Canada, and analyzes contemporary representations of the long, ongoing struggle for 2SLGBTQ+ rights. It pays special attention to the role of cultural institutions, such as museums and heritage sites, in shaping narratives and public understandings of queer history and 2SLGBTQ+ activism. It considers the limitations and possibilities of these institutions for connecting the past with the present – especially in ways that foster critical dialogue, spur reinterpretation, occasion artwork, and provoke action.
While engaging with transnational scholarship and deep history, the course focuses on Twentieth and Twenty First Century Canada. To connect theory and practice, there will be field trips to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the University of Winnipeg Two-Spirit Archives, which will involve first-hand engagement with representations and materials of queer history. The course will feature conversations with 2SLGBTQ+ scholars, activists, and artists about their work in the realm of public history and cultural production. Instead of an exam, students will undertake a final project that combines scholarly research and a creative, experimental, or even activist endeavour (to be determined in conversation with the instructor).
Requisites: None
HR-4650-001 Special Topics in Human Rights (3 credits)
Topic: Teaching Human Rights and Global Citizenship in Manitoba
M/ T/ W/ Th/ F 8:30 am- 4:30 pm, 07/07/2025-07/11/2025
Instructor: Lloyd Kornelsen
The nature and range of topics will vary, depending on the expertise of the instructor. Students should consult the Human Rights Advisor or Global College web site for information about specific iterations of the course. The course may be repeated if topic varies.
Special Topics: Teaching Human Rights and Global Citizenship in Manitoba. Students cannot hold credit in both HR-2600 Emerging Issues in Human Rights and EDUC-5001 ST: Teaching Human Rights and Global Citizenship in Manitoba. Cross-Listed: EDUC-5001-003.
Requisites: HR-2100(3) and HR-2200(3) and at least 6 additional credit hours in HR, or permission of the instructor