PY/ED/TH/UN/LL46101 Human Rights Interdisciplinary Seminar
(3 Credits in the Spring)
The Center for Human Rights and International Justice
Graduate Seminar in Human Rights
Prerequisites: Admission by instructor permission only.
Satisfies ABA Writing Requirement for Law Students
Instructor: M. Brinton Lykes, PhD (lykes@bc.edu; www2.bc.edu/~lykes)
The seminar will be taught and organized by Professor M. Brinton Lykes, with participation by the Directors, Fellows, and Affiliated Faculty of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice (see http://www.bc.edu/humanrights). It will develop an interdisciplinary understanding of—and responses to—the compelling human rights challenges of our times.
In the Spring of 2010, the seminar's focus will be on the ethical, political, legal, and psychosocial issues confronting migrants, refugees and displaced populations throughout the world. We will explore how gender, racial, and ethnic realities interface with war and humanitarian crises, and our responses to them both as causes and as consequences of refugee movements and of the U.S. immigration and deportation system.
The Center invites applications from students enrolled in a graduate degree program in any of Boston College's graduate departments or professional schools as well as Undergraduate Seniors. The seminar will meet every Thursday from 12.00 – 2.20 PM starting in January and continuing through May 2010 to discuss emerging issues in human rights and international justice, under the direction of the Center's core faculty, and will include sessions with guest lecturers and affiliated faculty. Students will be expected to attend all the seminar sessions and guest speaker presentations. Each student will engage in an interdisciplinary team and develop a response to a case study/fact pattern in human rights and international justice that will be supervised by at least two of the Center's core faculty.
Application: Students wishing to apply for the seminar should submit a brief statement explaining their interest (no longer than 250 words) to Prof. Brinton Lykes, lykes@bc.edu. Students may forward applications as early as spring 2009 but the application deadline is Tuesday, November 3, 2009.