- 2019

Undergraduate

Specialisation

Commencement year

This area of study entry applies to students commencing this course in 2019 and should be read in conjunction with the relevant course entry in the Handbook.

Any units listed for this area of study relate only to the 'Requirements' outlined in the component of any bachelors double degrees.

Unit codes that are not linked to their entry in the Handbook are not available for study in the current year.

Managing faculty

Faculty of Arts

Offered by

School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies

Contact details

Global studiesGlobal studies (http://future.arts.monash.edu/bachelor-global-studies/)

Location

Clayton

Human rights is an interdisciplinary specialisation, examining the history and the nature of human rights and addressing basic issues such as: What are human rights? Are human rights culturally relative? How can human rights be justified? You will examine how these issues relate to pressing practical problems, for instance, how an understanding of human rights helps to address issues such as global poverty, unequal access to medicine, refugees, terrorism, warfare, children's rights, humanitarian intervention, torture, surveillance and more.

Compulsory overseas study component

A minimum of 18 points must be chosen for study abroad from the units listed below or an overseas partner institution. For more information go to Arts study abroadArts study abroad (http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/study-overseas/).

Units

Students complete:

  1. Six units (36 points) as follows:

    Two level 1 gateway units (12 points):

    Two level 2 cornerstone units (12 points) from:

    • ATS2057 Genocide
    • ATS2334Not offered in 2019 Human rights discourse: A practical and conceptual history
    • ATS2640 The ethics of global conflict
    • ATS2868 Anarchy, property and the state

    Two level 3 capstone units (12 points):

    • ATS3639 Poverty, climate change and international justice
    • ATS3905 Democratic theory
  2. Six units (36 points) from the list of human rights electives below, with at least three units (18 points) at level 3

Electives

  • ATS2334Not offered in 2019 Human rights discourse: A practical and conceptual history
  • ATS2354Not offered in 2019/ATS3354Not offered in 2019 Interrogating racism: Indigenous Australians and the state
  • ATS2584Not offered in 2019/ATS3584Not offered in 2019 Australia's black history
  • ATS2600 The Holocaust
  • ATS2628 Power and poverty: International development in a globalised world
  • ATS2637 Global bioethics
  • ATS2871 Environmental ethics
  • ATS2932 Struggles for justice: The history of rebellion, resistance and revolt
  • ATS2946 Critical thinking: How to analyse arguments and improve your reasoning skills
  • ATS3376 Anthropology of human rights
  • ATS3462 International crime and justice
  • ATS3623Not offered in 2019 Nationality, ethnicity and conflict
  • ATS3632 Post-conflict: Justice, memory, reconciliation
  • ATS3697 Gender and international relations
  • ATS3935 Professional practice
  • ATS3956 Trauma and memory in the modern world

International study tours

  • ATS2330Not offered in 2019/ATS3330Not offered in 2019 State sovereignty, human rights, and the responsibility to protect
  • ATS2465/ATS3465 Human rights in the criminal justice sphere
  • ATS3064 Cultural intelligence: Building competencies for global leadership
  • ATS3208Not offered in 2019 In the footsteps of refugees
  • ATS3314Not offered in 2019 Seeking justice: South Africa and Rwanda

Relevant courses

Bachelors

Single degrees

Successful completion of this specialisation can be counted towards meeting the requirements for the following single degree:

  • A2001 Bachelor of Global Studies

Students in other single bachelor's degrees are not eligible to complete this specialisation.

Double degrees

Successful completion of this specialisation can be counted towards meeting the requirements for the Bachelor of Global Studies component in the following double degrees:

  • B2006 Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Global Studies
  • L3009 Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Bachelor of Global Studies
  • S2003 Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Global Studies