POLSC402: Global Justice

Explore the complex landscape of global justice in this comprehensive 31-hour course. Delve into human rights contexts, contemporary justice discourse origins, and political theory applications. Examine empowerment, agency, and the universal-relative debate. Analyze conflicting justice claims, revisit individual-collective debates, and investigate participation, rights, and needs in relation to civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights. Conclude by evaluating the compatibility of global and justice concepts in both theory and practice.

Syllabus

Course Introduction
Unit 1: A Human Rights Context for Global Justice
Unit 2: Origins of the Contemporary Justice and Rights Discourse
Unit 3: Political Theory and Global Justice
Unit 4: Empowerment, Agency, and Global Justice: Revisiting the Universal-Relative Debate
Unit 5: Resolving Conflicting Claims for Justice: Revisiting the Individual-Collective Debate
Unit 6: Participation, Rights, Needs, and Global Justice: Revisiting Civil, Political and Economic, Social, Cultural Rights Debate
Unit 7: Final Considerations: Are Global and Justice Compatible In Theory and Practice?
Course Feedback Survey
Certificate Final Exam