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HRTD6916: Human Rights Simulation
2025 unit information
This unit of study will provide students the opportunity to assume institutional roles within the international human rights and refugee regime framework, and understand its opportunities and constraints in responding to social problems rooted in inequality, precarity and violence. This unit reaches beyond traditional classroom instruction by simulating a range of human rights and migration issues to which students must respond, engaging students in exercises designed to practice skills for future human rights advocacy, including data collection, interview techniques, and engaging with the media.
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Sociology and Criminology |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. understand the relationships between human rights victims, violators, and protectors
- LO2. analyse the human rights system (both violations and appropriate responses) on multiple spatial levels (local, national, regional and international)
- LO3. demonstrate written and spoken communication skills
- LO4. establish the challenges and benefits of group work
- LO5. demonstrate knowledge in range of advocacy strategies and tactics and knowledge in critical reflection of their implementation.
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